Applications for Process Patents: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4307 ... May 5, 1994U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 - 88 páginas |
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administration amend American Amgen believe bill biotech industry biotechnology industry BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION biotechnology process Chairman CHARLES VAN HORN chemical COBLE companies CONG CONGRESS THE LIBRARY direct memory access drill bit Durden enacted end product enforce Federal Circuit foreign competitors FRANK genetic engineering gentleman host cell HUGHES important industry-specific infringement innovation Intellectual Property invention inventor issue juris doctor KIRK legislation LIBRA LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY OF CONGRE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY THE LIBRARY Mancy MOORHEAD MOSSINGHOFF nonobvious novel microprocessor obviousness Patent and Trademark patent examiners Patent Office patent owner patentable starting material pharmaceutical PhRMA Pleuddemann polyethylene PREPARED STATEMENT presumed valid problem process patent applications process patent protection product patent protein question Raines result Rick Boucher section 103 SENATE SMITH specific statute Subcommittee testified testimony Thank tion title 35 Trademark Office U.S. patent system unexamined claims United States Code WATERMAN
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Página 37 - Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. "I*b be great is to be misunderstood^ I suppose no man can violate his nature.
Página 76 - ... dependent claims shall be presumed valid even though dependent upon an invalid claim. The burden of establishing invalidity of a patent or any claim thereof shall rest on the party asserting such invalidity.
Página 37 - Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Página 23 - In that they failed to state sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the invention...
Página 73 - ... [T]he fact that new or old, obvious or nonobvious, materials are used or result from the process are only factors to be considered, rather than conclusive indicators of the obviousness or nonobviousness of a claimed...
Página 68 - Dow manufactures and supplies more than 2,000 products and services, including chemicals and performance products, plastics, hydrocarbons and energy, and consumer specialties - which include agricultural products, Pharmaceuticals and consumer products. The company operates 181 manufacturing sites in 32 countries, and employs 56,000 people around the world.
Página 73 - Pleuddemann that an old process for using a new material is patentable by virtue of the properties of the patentable material or product employed. In Ex parte Ochiai,331 the Board has also rejected the Federal Circuit's en banc admonition that Durden is not authority to reject as obvious every method claim reading on an old type of process,332 considering the court's statement to be dictum inapplicable to methods of making compounds.333 In Ochiai, the Board considered claims to a process of making...
Página 13 - Further, no remedy is available if the product was materially changed by subsequent processes or if it becomes a trivial and nonessential component of another product.
Página 29 - The court also reviews the decisions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. The Supreme Court may decide which of the cases under its appellate jurisdiction it will review. Because it cannot possibly review all the cases, it selects the ones it considers the most important The court agrees to hear a case by granting a writ of certiorari (pronounced...
Página 7 - District, has forwarded me a statement which, without objection, will be made a part of the record at this point.