The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“the Federal Circuit”) recently put the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) on notice that the broadest reasonable interpretation of claims…
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In Smith & Nephew, Covidien v. Hologic, (Fed. Cir., 2018) the CAFC interpreted the claim phrase “simultaneously rotate, translate, and reciprocate” such that reciprocating includes a translating motion, but is not necessar…
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Thirty-five PTAB decisions cite Ex parte Schulhauser since that case was designated precedential in October 2016. Of those thirty-five decisions, all except for one held that the broadest reasonable interpretation of a method cl…
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