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An Analysis of the New Written Description Training Materials ? Protein Variants

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Christopher P. Singer -- In April, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it had updated the training materials to be used by examiners in the examination of patent applications for compliance with the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. The revised training materials supersede and replace the previous set of training materials issued by the Patent Office in 1999. The new training materials provide seventeen examples, of which fourteen are specifically related to biotech inventions. In particular, the biotech-specific examples address expressed sequence tags (ESTs) (example 4), a partial protein structure (example 5),...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).