Patent Law

First Topic: Broadest Reasonable Interpretation

By DC Patent Associate

The goal is to address the question:

• what claim interpretations are so broad that they are beyond reasonable?

Upon conducting a quick search for "beyond reasonable" at the BPAI database, four decisions were discovered.  A quick reading revealed that in each of the four decisions, the Board disapproved of the Examiner's claim interpretations because they were "beyond reasonable".

Here is a link to the four cases:  http://des.uspto.gov/Foia/DispatchBPAIServlet?Objtype=ser&SearchId=&SearchRng=decDt&txtInput_StartDate=07%2F01%2F1997&txtInput_EndDate=&docTextSearch=%22beyond+reasonable%22&page=60

Full post as published by Benefit of Hindsight on January 15, 2008 (boomark / email).