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- Title
The coming US patent opposition.
- Authors
Apple, Ted
- Abstract
The article informs that features of a US post-grant patent opposition system are now being determined. The US Patent and Trademark Office is charged with ensuring that inventions claimed in issued patents meet the statutory requirements for patentability; that is, an invention must be new (novel), nonobvious, useful, enabled by and adequately described in the patent specification, and clearly defined by the patent claims. Nonetheless, there are patents that issue with excessively broad claims, or with claims directed to inventions that are anticipated, obvious or have some other deficiency that should have precluded grant of the claim. Invalid claims are issued for a number of reasons.
- Subjects
PATENT law; PATENTS; INVENTIONS; INTELLECTUAL property; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; TECHNICAL specifications
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 2, p245
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt0205-245