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STC Seminar Series – Law of Written Description: How USPTO limits the scope of patent claims
Thursday, April 25, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
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STC 2019 Spring Seminar Series
STC.UNM, the University of New Mexico’s technology-transfer and economic-development office, is hosting its 2019 spring seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the UNM community and the public, but registration is required.
Developments in the law of Written Description: How the USPTO limits the scope of your patent claims
Presented by Christopher D. Gram, Shareholder, Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A.
The scope of granted patent claims depends on many factors. One important factor is the extent to which the invention is described in the patent specification. A patent examiner looks to the patent specification to see how deeply and how broadly the specification describes the technology recited in patent claims; this is the written description requirement. The seminar will cover the basics of the written description requirement and focus on recent changes in the way the USPTO applies the written description requirement to patent claims that involve antibodies.
Speaker Bio
Christopher D. Gram, Shareholder, Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A. (B.A., Yale University; M.S., Cell and Developmental Biology, and J.D., University of Minnesota)
Chris is a patent attorney whose practice includes patent drafting and prosecution with a focus in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, immunology, peptide and nucleic acid technologies, medical devices, and related opinion work. Chris’s clients include multi-national corporations, mid-size corporations, universities, start-ups, and solo inventors. He has been practicing since 1996 and has been with the law firm of Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A. in Minneapolis, MN since 2006. Immediately prior to joining the firm, he was in-house Intellectual Property Counsel for 3M Innovative Properties Company in St. Paul, MN.
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