The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Tuesday, March 19, issued a memo for all patent examiners reiterating its current practices and resources for examining means-plus-function and ...
Counsel could be more hesitant to recommend means-plus-function claims for life sciences patents if the Federal Circuit rules against Xencor An upcoming case at the Court of Appeals for the Federal ...
Essentially, means plus function claiming allows the drafter to claim the invention based on functionality rather than the more traditional (and preferred) claiming technique that employs structure ...
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity.
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