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Phillips Standard of Claim Construction to be Used by PTAB in “AIA Proceedings”
After much deliberation, the USPTO has published a Final Rule mandating that the claim construction standard articulated by the Fed. Cir. in Phillips v. AWH Corp., 415 F.3d 1301 (Fed. Cir. 2005), and used by federal district courts, will replace … Continue reading
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Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. v. Cepheid – Are Primers “Natural Products”?
Anyone familiar with the fate of claims to primers used in PCR, to amplify a stretch of target DNA in order to determine whether or not a significant mutation is present, could write the opinion in this appeal (No. 2017-1690 … Continue reading
Ex parte Parenteau – PTAB Skips Step One of the Mayo/Alice Test?
In ex parte Ho, the subject of my last post, the PTAB reversed the Examiner’s rejection of claims to a population of bone marrow cells obtained by two-stage culturing that expressed or failed to express certain markers. The PTAB wrote … Continue reading
Ex Parte Nagy – The Reach of the Mayo/Alice Rule Exceeds Its Grasp?
The final rejection of the claims of Nagy’s application Serial No. 14/223,113 was affirmed by the PTAB on July 30, 2018 (Appeal 2017-008793). One of the “representative” claims was directed to the holy grail of diagnostics – the early diagnosis … Continue reading