From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Favorite Quotes from KSR, Part I

October 27, 2009

You’ve heard it before, whether from an insistent client, from a partner or senior associate for whom you were working on a project, or from a colleague in an ever fascinating discussion of the nuances of patent application drafting. “You have to tell the whole story.” “This may be the case that ends up in [...]

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Obsessive Disclosure

October 7, 2009

In our last post, Materiality and a Legitimate Paranoia, we argued that egregious holdings in cases can compel an applicant and his attorney to submit a gargantuan amount of art in order to avoid a charge of inequitable misconduct.  The McKesson decision was particularly effective in inducing Applicants everywhere to cite enormous numbers of Office [...]

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