Olga Partington, Ph.D., Deborah Sterling, Ph.D. The so-called “Lead Compound Analysis” is the primary legal framework for assessing chemical obviousness. Despite the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal ...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s determination that 79 challenged composition claims across three related patents were unpatentable but ...
“The public outcome of compound claim cases indicates that the success rate is much lower when compared with challenges of other types of claims.” Patent challenges are an indispensable part of the ...
Compound semiconductors (CS) have piqued the interest of researchers and engineers all over the world for more than two decades. A compound semiconductor is made up of two or more different chemical ...