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Olga Partington, Ph.D., Deborah Sterling, Ph.D. The so-called “Lead Compound Analysis” is the primary legal framework for assessing chemical obviousness. Despite the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal ...

Mass spectrometry (MS) has become indispensable for the analysis of organic compounds, offering exceptional sensitivity and specificity. Recent methodological advances have introduced improvements ...

“The [so-called lead compound rule] is in tension with other aspects of obviousness jurisprudence as set forth in decisions of the Federal Circuit itself.” “For a new chemical compound, we apply a two ...

Compound semiconductors (CS) have piqued the interest of researchers and engineers all over the world for more than two decades. A compound semiconductor is made up of two or more different chemical ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s determination that 79 challenged composition claims across three related patents were unpatentable but ...