Karen Potter Ph.D., Jeffrey Schmidt Ph.D. On March 18, 2024, the USPTO issued a memorandum to its Examiners reminding them of the resources and proper analysis for interpreting limitations under 35 ...

In the aftermath of those cases, some practitioners have suggested means-plus-function claiming as one strategy to obtain antibody claims that are broader in scope than the specific antibodies ...

“Enfish indicates that the pendulum may be swinging too far against the practice of functional claiming at the expense of the policy behind this rule.” A single means claim is a claim with a single ...

“When ‘determining whether software limitations like those at issue here recite sufficient structure, we can look beyond the initial ‘code’ or ‘application’ term to the functional language to see if a ...

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe the algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity ...