On June 2, 2014, in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., No. 13-369, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Federal Circuit’s test for determining indefiniteness of a patent claim as ...
EDITORIAL NOTE: What follows is an excerpt from the latest edition of Rules for Patent Drafting: Guidance from Federal Circuit Cases, 2017 Edition, which will be released the week of May 10, 2017.
In Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., a unanimous Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and redefined the standard for indefiniteness under Section 112, ¶ 2. No. 13-369, 572 U.S. ___ ...
The surprise of the day Monday was the issuance of not one but two opinions from the April argument calendar – unanimous opinions in the two patent cases with which the Court closed the Term. Nautilus ...
The definiteness requirement of Section 112(b) of the Patent Act mandates that claims "particularly point[] out and distinctly claim[] the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards ...