Following this Notice of Allowance NAI intends to seek a significant number of
additional patent claims to further broaden its intellectual property protection.
Not exact matches
What I am saying is we need to reevaluate the system that allows Big Pharma to keep reapplying for
patent extensions for dubious
claims on
additional properties of their products, resulting in higher costs.
It is a term of art in
patent law that renders the
claim «open - ended» so that it covers both the listed nucleotide sequence and, more importantly, the listed sequence in combination with
additional sequences.
That's because Cold Spring Harbor alleges that Hannon's
patents were rejected by PTO because of the copying, but, says Ropes & Gray,
additional claims were also rejected by PTO.
In July 1934, Szilard filed an «
additional specification» — another
patent claim attached to his original
patent application.
Avigen anticipates
additional patents will be issued covering indications that include addiction, delirium, and psychotic disorders, as well as composition of matter
claims on AV411 analogs.
I navigate these various decisions and guidelines by working in collaboration with my clients as to various ways to
claim their respective inventions (e.g.,
claiming non-natural
claim elements where needed to illustrate patentably eligible subject matter, or alternatively looking for appropriate arguments that meet the USPTO's guidelines), proper development of a
patent specification that can be used for prosecution and litigation purposes (e.g., good actual, prophetic and comparative examples to illustrate the novelty and nonobviousness of the invention while still maintaining a broad
claim scope of protection for future enforcement), and continual review of the client's
patent landscape (via competitive and white space analyses and updates) to look for
additional IP opportunities.
First, members could deter the
patent troll by requesting
additional information, such as the scope of the
patent, the
claims allegedly violated, and a description of the product or service that allegedly infringes it.