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Falker-Gunter Falkner v Inglis

Fed Cir. 2006

In this interference appeal from the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, the Federal Circuit ruled that the written description requirement does not mean that a patentee must recite known structures that are already in the literature.

Thanks to and discussion at Patently-O (cache)

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