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1 week ago

The Symmetry Problem: Printed Matter, Nexus, and the Federal Circuit's One-Way Ratchet

The Federal Circuit's tightening of the nexus requirement has significantly impacted the use of secondary considerations in patent nonobviousness analysis.
fromPatently-O
4 months ago

How the Printed Matter Doctrine Sees Through X-Ray Markers

The Federal Circuit's first decision in the long-running C.R. Bard v. AngioDynamics litigation had held that the informational content conveyed by radiographic markers on vascular access ports constitutes printed matter not entitled to patentable weight, but that the structural requirement of a radiographically discernible marker could still distinguish the claims from prior art. C R Bard Inc. v. AngioDynamics, Inc., 979 F.3d 1372 (Fed. Cir. 2020).
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