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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 11, 2007

Patent Override

Focus Column - By Thomas P. Krzeminski - If the Supreme Court changed the way patent validity were determined, how would the decision affect the 2 million U.S. patents granted over the last 20 years? That question is no longer a hypothetical.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Thomas P. Krzeminski

      If the Supreme Court changed the way patent validity were determined, how would the decision affect the 2 million U.S. patents granted during the past 20 years? After the court's recent decision in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 2007 DJDAR 5934 (decided April 30, 2007), that question no longer is hypothetical.
      In KSR, multiple ju...

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