The Interim Written Description Guidelines -- one correlation too many?
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The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued interim guidelines to assist PTO examiners in determining whether the required written description of product claims complies with the substantive law as summarized in University of California v. Eli Lilly & Co. PTO should strictly limit application of the guidelines to biotechnological and genetic subjects. The new function-correlation test proposed in the guidelines lacks case law support.
Publication Name: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0882-9098
Year: 1999
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"Do-over!" - the Federal Circuit takes a second look at Enzo v. Gen-Probe
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In the second hearing of Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Gen-Probe, Inc. the US Court of Appeals for the federal circuit reversed its earlier decision in the case regarding patent sprecifications for biotechnology patents. The court ruled that biological material deposited in a public depository could be referred to in a specification in order to meet specification requirements.
Publication Name: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0882-9098
Year: 2003
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The evolution of patents on life: transgenic animals, clones and stem cells
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The granting of patent rights to the developers of transgenic mice and other higher animals since 1987 is examined. The patentability of animal clones and human stem cells is also discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0882-9098
Year: 2001
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