You may have heard that it is inappropriate to read into a patent claim from the specification. That isn’t entirely accurate, although you will hear that popular misconception often repeated even by ...

The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from ...

With the European Commission heading towards a second reading of its patent legislation, there's still more heat than light in discussions on the subject. The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has of late been ...

Patents: When the 'Plain and Ordinary' Meaning Is Neither Plain nor Ordinary Matthew Chivvis writes that the Federal Circuit's decisions provide conflicting guidance on the duty to construe a term ...

The purpose of the comma and how the comma might change the meaning of the sentence was debated when the America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted in 2013. Because of a comma, the meaning of the Act was ...

The meaning of “protected by a basic patent” has been clarified in Teva v Gilead, in a return to familiar ground The Court of Justice of the EU today clarified when a product is protected by a basic ...

Tomotoshi Shimano of Shiga International Patent Office examines the implications of recent High Court decisions relating to the interpretation of ‘working of a patented invention’ IP High Court (IPHC) ...