December 05, 2017
Bryan K. Wheelock
Principal
St. Louis Metro Office
720 Recent Articles
November 21, 2017
Intervening Rights Apply When There Is a Product that Infringes the Original Claim that Does Not Infringe the Amended Claim
November 20, 2017
Breadth is not Indefiniteness; If the Relevant Skilled Artisan has Reasonable Certainty as to What is Covered the Claim is Not Indefinite
November 15, 2017
Perhaps Out of Guilt, the Federal Circuit Grants Mandamus to Permit Venue Challenge
November 14, 2017
Not All Pirates are in the Caribbean
November 09, 2017
Amendment of Claims in Parent Application Do Not Apply to Continuation Claims that do not have the Amended Language
November 08, 2017
Is the Reproduction of a Branded Product in a Depiction of Real Life an Infringement?
November 01, 2017
He Who Lives by the Suit, Dies by the Suit
November 01, 2017
Federal Circuit Endorses the Use of a Claim Preamble (Which Isn’t Even a Limitation, Right?) to Find the Claim Was Directed to an Abstract Idea
November 01, 2017
Expert Testimony on Lack of Motivation Won the Battle, but Lost the War
October 30, 2017
Functional Language in an Apparatus Claim does not Always Make Claim Indefinite
October 26, 2017
Objective Indicia Not Enough to Overcome Weight of Evidence of Obviousness
October 18, 2017
Judge Linn in Dissent Reveals that Alice has No Clothes
October 16, 2017
Return to Sender: Secure Mail Patents Claim Abstract Idea
October 11, 2017
The Board Misses the BRI with a Construction that was too Narrow
October 11, 2017
Ungrammatical Language Not Ambiguous in View of Specification as a Whole
October 05, 2017
Antigens Don’t Describe Antibodies, and the Value of Post-Priority Date Activity on Written Description and Enablement
October 04, 2017
It May Have Just Gotten a Little Easier to Amend Claims in an IPR
September 29, 2017
Hypothetical Claim in Doctrine of Equivalents Analysis Cannot Narrow Claim Scope
September 26, 2017