 Patent Law Weblog By Kevin E. Noonan -- Only a few days after the one-year anniversary of hearing oral argument, the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. In short -- and to be explicated more fully in a coming post -- the decision was completely in the Regents' favor (except for the panel affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision on Preliminary Motion denying Regents the benefit of the priority date of two earlier-filed provisional applications on written description grounds). The opinion, by Judge Reyna joined by Judges Hughes and Cunningham,...
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