Last Month at the Federal Circuit
Last Month at the Federal Circuit

June 2014

Patent App[eals]® includes PDFs of all patent-related Federal Circuit decisions dating back to 2001.  A user can search on keywords, judges, dates of decisions, lower court from which the case was appealed, case name, case number, and whether or not a case was heard en banc.  In addition, if the decision was summarized in Last Month at the Federal Circuit, the Finnegan case summary is included.

During Claim Construction, Reading Limitations from a Preferred Embodiment and Importing Limitations Conflicting with a Preferred Embodiment Are Improper
No. 13-1267 (Fed. Cir. May 1, 2014)
[Appealed from N.D. Ohio, Judge Gwin]

PTO May Reject Claims as Indefinite If Not as Reasonably Precise as the Circumstances Permit

[Appealed from Board]

Exact Genetic Copies of Patent Ineligible Subject Matter Are Also Patent Ineligible

[Appealed from Board]
Abbreviations  
ALJ Administrative Law Judge
ANDA Abbreviated New Drug Application
APA Administrative Procedures Act
APJ Administrative Patent Judge
Board Patent Trial and Appeal Board (formerly the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences)
Commissioner Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
CIP Continuation-in-Part
DJ Declaratory Judgment
DOE Doctrine of Equivalents
FDA Food and Drug Administration
IDS Information Disclosure Statement
ITC International Trade Commission
JMOL Judgment as a Matter of Law
MPEP Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
NDA New Drug Application
PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty
PTO United States Patent and Trademark Office
SJ Summary Judgment
TTAB Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
Finnegan
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