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Supreme Court Decides Definiteness Standard for Patents
A patent must be “definite”: it must particularly point out and distinctly claim the invention. 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 2. Otherwise, the patent is not valid. 35 U.S.C. § 282 ¶ 2(3). On June 2, 2014, the Supreme Court in Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments unanimously decided the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is definite, rejecting the Federal Circuit’s standard. Biosig owns U.S. Patent No. 5,337,753 for an exercise heart-rate monitor of the kind on a cylindrical treadmill grip, where the user grips two sets of sensors, one with each hand. Each set of sensors has two electrodes “in Read More »
Posted in Patent Litigation
| Tagged definiteness, Federal Circuit, Supreme Court
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