April 23, 2021
In an anticipation rejection, every element and limitation of the claimed invention must be found in a single prior art reference, arranged as in the claim.
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April 16, 2021
Ex parte Yim, is a recent decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) addressing whether claimed properties were inherent in prior art compositions. In
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April 6, 2021
In February, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. v. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. concerning the obviousness of a chemical compound. Perhaps the most
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March 31, 2021
A conclusion of obviousness requires that a skilled artisan would have had a reason to combine the teachings of the prior art references to achieve the
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March 26, 2021
In Ex parte Hassler (Appeal 2020-001367), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) considered Appellant’s two arguments rebutting the Examiner’s obviousness rejection based on the combination
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March 19, 2021
Chemical compounds in patent claims often include variables representing different possible substituent groups. For example, a chemical formula may include a variable R1 representing a hydrogen
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March 15, 2021
Intervening rights address the impact on third parties when a patentee makes substantive changes to the scope of patent claims in a post-grant proceeding (reissue, reexamination,
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March 5, 2021
In January of this year we reported on the Federal Circuit decision Donner Technology, LLC v. Pro Stage Gear, LLC, (link here) where the court clarified
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February 24, 2021
When evaluating whether a Petitioner’s inter partes review petition is based on matters previously presented to the Office, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”)
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February 19, 2021
In Ex parte Gomez (Appeal 2020-001462), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) considered an Examiner’s obviousness rejection based on an allegedly overlapping range and, alternatively,
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