Patent Application Drafting
Patent Profanity
Like George Carlin’s Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV, there are certain words you shouldn’t use in patent applications. The following…
Means-Plus-Function and the Risk of Losing Your Way
Means-Plus-Function The Risk of Losing Your Way Word choice matters a great deal in the world of patenting. You’re using…
Enablement and Written Description: Hindsight Gotchas
Patenting in the fog of unknowns Application disclosure requires a certain level of specificity and scope restraint to satisfy Written…
Cautionary Tales: Doctrine of Equivalents vs. Dedication Disclosure Doctrine
Doctrine of equivalents (DOE) and the dedication disclosure doctrine (DDD) As many fine practitioners will attest, there is a fine…
Mixing Sytem and Method Claims
Mastermine Software, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2017), as well as several previous cases, have ruled that mixing system…
Patent Specification Drafting – Getting into the Nitty Gritty
The Manual of Patent Examining Procedures states: “As a general rule, where software constitutes part of a best mode of carrying out…
Loving on the Oxford Comma
Let’s start this post by my confessing that I love the Oxford comma and am therefore a bit biased. BUT,…
Patent Claim Punctuation Matters
In Securus Technologies, Inc. v. Global Tel*Link Corp., the Federal Circuit reviewed a claim construction dispute with respect to the…
Protect Your Ideas With Confidence
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