AIPLA speakers stress importance of stable patents
24 October 2008
Eileen McDermott, Washington DC
Panellists yesterday discussed how to navigate a “patent system in flux and under attack” at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s annual meeting in Washington DC
The three-hour session included John Love, deputy commissioner for patent examination policy at the USPTO, law professors Adam Jaffe and F Scott Kieffe and Judge Pauline Newman of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Several private practitioners also spoke on topics such as how to draft patent applications to support broad claims, obviousness rejections post-
KSR
v Teleflex
and patentable subject matter in light of the potential outcome of
In re Bilski
.
All of the speakers agreed that "stability" and "certainty" are crucial to a strong patent system, since investors and patentees need to be confident they will see some return.
Many of the panellists also agreed that the US patent system has strayed away from these imperatives in...
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