In a recent series of cases, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) evaluated whether examples in a patent specification will support infringement of alternative embodiments. Two recent ...

Research tool patents typically claim methods or compositions used to discover novel, biologically important compounds and therapeutics. Patentees often try to maximize the rewards of their innovation ...

Exploring the state of pharma patents following the Supreme Court’s Amgen v. Sanofi decision. Lee (Harness IP): This is actually a huge-stakes case because this case discusses one of the most ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is an excerpt from Rules of Patent Drafting: Guidance from Federal Circuit Cases, 2014 Edition, which is now available at Amazon.com. This is the second installment of what ...