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The Written Description Training Materials and Ex parte Porro

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, we reported on a presentation that Dr. George Elliott, Group 1600 Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, gave at this year's BIO International Convention (see "Docs at BIO: Representatives from JPO, EPO, SIPO, and USPTO Discuss Recent Developments in Japan, Europe, China, and the U.S." and "Docs at BIO: "Gotcha" Games Continue at USPTO"). Among the topics that Dr. Elliott addressed during his presentation were the new written description training materials -- specifically, Example 11, which concerns claims directed to a polynucleotide or polypeptide sequence that shares percent identity with another sequence....

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 09, 2008 (boomark / email).