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Kubin Panel Questions Motivation behind Reversal in New Written Description Training Materials

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

By Donald Zuhn -- As we reported yesterday, the Federal Circuit heard oral argument today in In re Kubin (see "In re Kubin to Be Argued before the Federal Circuit on Thursday"). Kevin Noonan will be providing a complete analysis of the oral argument in this case in a subsequent post. One interesting aside, however, involved an exchange between the Court (specifically Circuit Judge Rader) and USPTO Associate Solicitor Janet Gongola regarding Example 11 of the new Written Description Training Materials. Last March, the Patent Office announced that it had updated the training materials to be used by examiners in...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 09, 2009 (boomark / email).