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18 hours ago

High Court Declines to Consider MSN's Call for Clarity on CAFC's After-Arising Technology Conflict

MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc. subsequently filed a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court in August of this year, arguing that there is "doctrinal chaos" surrounding the topic of after-arising technology in the context of patent infringement suits. While some Federal Circuit decisions have held "that when a patentee secures a claim construction that ensnares, as infringing, an accused device that features after-arising technology, the patentee risks invalidating its own patent on written-description and enablement grounds,"
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1 week ago

When Juries Don't Matter: Written Description Effectively Becomes a Question of Law

The Federal Circuit reversed two million-dollar jury verdicts, finding patent specifications failed §112(a) disclosure requirements as a matter of law.
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