JD Supra

Method of Treatment Claims Are Not Invalid for Lacking Written Description or Enablement Simply Because the Treatment Is Not Safe or Efficacious in Some Patients

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in United Therapeutics Corp. v. Liquidia Techs., Inc., No. 2022-2217, 2023 WL 4695903 (Fed. Cir. July 24, 2023), provides an interesting discussion on the written ...
JD Supra

Can Enablement and Written Description Bars be Lower for Method-Of-Treatment Patent Claims?

Patent offices may reject a patent application with claims reciting using a composition to treat a disease, based on the requirement that the claimed treatment is not fully supported by the ...
IPWatchdog

Claimed Method As a Whole Must Be Described to Satisfy Written Description Requirement

The Method as a Whole Was Not Expressly Described Compliance with the written description requirement of Section 112 is a question of fact, judged from the perspective of a skilled artisan as of the ...
Science Daily

Revolutionary method could bring us much closer to the description of hyperdiverse faunas

Largely relying on DNA barcoding, rather than traditional practices, a simplified diagnostics method for species description could be the key to revealing Earth's biodiversity before much of it goes ...
Nature

Description and pilot results from a novel method for evaluating return of incidental findings from next-generation sequencing technologies

The aim of this study was to develop, operationalize, and pilot test a transparent, reproducible, and evidence-informed method to determine when to report incidental findings from next-generation ...