CHAPTER 6 Outline

• Jurisdiction: United States

CHAPTER 6

The Written Description of the Invention Requirement

§6.01 The Varied Meanings of "Written Description"

§6.02 Priority Policing Mechanism

§6.03 Policy Rationale

§6.04 "Inventor in Possession" Test

[A] How the Specification Conveys Possession

[B] Ambiguity in the Possession Test

§6.05 Written Description Versus Enablement

§6.06 Traditional "Time Gap" Situations Invoking Written Description Scrutiny

[a] General

[b] Entitlement to Filing Date of Domestic Provisional Application

[c] Entitlement to Filing Date of International Application

[d] Negative Limitation Added by Claim Amendment

§6.07 Federal Circuit's Expansion of the Written Description Requirement

[A] Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Eli Lilly and Co. (1997)

[B] Enzo Biochem., Inc. v. Gen-Probe, Inc. (2002)

[C] Univ.

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