The Death of the Genus Claim

D Karshtedt, MA Lemley, SB Seymore - Harv. JL & Tech., 2021 - HeinOnline
The central feature of patent law in the chemical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical
industries is the genus claim-a patent claim that covers not just one specific chemical but a …

Limits of using artificial intelligence and GPT-3 in patent prosecution

S Tu, A Cyphert, S Perl - Tex. Tech L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) and other forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
have the ability to revolutionize patent prosecution and claim drafting. Created by OpenAI," …

Patents' New Salience

J Freilich - Va. L. Rev., 2023 - HeinOnline
It is quite likely that you, the reader, have infringed a patent today. There are millions of in-
force US patents, and many cover routine, everyday behaviors. Perhaps you used a …

The Patent Examiner Sweepstakes

WM Schuster - American Business Law Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents evidence that patent value varies with random examiner assignment at
the US Patent Office. Prior work analyzed firm growth as a function of review by “easy” …

Rethinking the presumption of enablement in nonpatent prior art

G Carlini - Duke LJ, 2023 - HeinOnline
The rising popularity of tools such as preprint servers, open-access data sources, and
generative artificial intelligence has resulted in a proliferation of prior art that has never been …

Patent Reality Checks-Eliminating Patents on Fake, Impossible and Other Inoperative Inventions

JL Contreras - J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y, 2021 - HeinOnline
The recent assertion of patents originally held by Theranos, the defunct blood analysis
company whose founders are under federal indictment for fraud, highlights the existence of …

Pharmaceutical patents and adversarial examination

D Karshtedt - Geo. Wash. L. Rev., 2023 - HeinOnline
Proposals to improve the work quality of the US Patent and Trademark Office (" PTO" or"
USPTO") continue to generate vigorous debate. On one hand, several scholars maintain that …

Hybrid-status immigrant workers

J Hamburger - Duke LJ, 2023 - HeinOnline
Precarious work arrangements have become a dominant feature of twenty-first-century
political economy. One employer strategy that has contributed to eroding workers' rights and …

Holistic Claim Construction

L Mishchecko - Cardozo L. Rev., 2023 - HeinOnline
Intangible rights-privacy, goodwill, free speech, intellectual property-are hard to grasp.
Courts sometimes use analogies in the tangible world to gain a better understanding of …

The Patent Law Origins of Science Fiction

CA Hrdy, DH Brean - Colum. JL & Arts, 2024 - HeinOnline
This Article reveals the surprising role of patent law in shaping the literary genre of science
fiction. Drawing on previously unpublished sources, the Article shows that Hugo …