A fascinating ruling dealing with design patents, amendments made during prosecution, and limitations on claim scope was handed down by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on September 12,...
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit presented an interesting paradox in patent validity challenges, especially when the same parties bring forth essentially the same issues, but have...
Anticipation in patent law means the claimed invention lacks novelty, or is not new; in other words, the invention was already invented. Anticipation, as codified in 35 U.S.C. ยง102(a) (or...