Federal Circuit Reverses PTO’s Claim Rejection due to Impermissibly Broad Interpretation

On April 28, 2016, I sent out an email reporting the In re Man Machine decision from the Federal Circuit, which reversed claim rejections made by the Patent Office, which were based on an overly-broad interpretation of the claims. In a similar decision yesterday, the Federal Circuit again reversed claim rejections made by the PTO, which were based on an impermissibly broad claim interpretation (under the PTO’s construction of the claims’ under the broadest reasonable interpretation). This latest decision, in connection with…

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