The Supreme Court recently “conclude[d] that the Federal Circuit’s formulation, which tolerates some ambiguous claims but not others, does not satisfy the statute’s definiteness requirement.” Nautilus ...
Hard times do not break us; they expose us. My view is simple: success ...
On June 2, 2014, in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., No. 13-369, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Federal Circuit’s test for determining indefiniteness of a patent claim as ...
The surprise of the day Monday was the issuance of not one but two opinions from the April argument calendar – unanimous opinions in the two patent cases with which the Court closed the Term. Nautilus ...
The Justices started their last week of the Term considering a foundational problem of patent law – how to determine whether a patent is so “indefinite” that it is invalid. Because the basic bargain ...
The definiteness requirement of Section 112(b) of the Patent Act mandates that claims "particularly point[] out and distinctly claim[] the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards ...
IN my lecture on Force (anté, Sept. 21), I take for granted that the scientific use of the word is that with which all are familiar in the expression “the parallelogram of forces.” Hence Newton's term ...