{"id":1820,"date":"2010-02-09T19:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T01:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2010-02-09T19:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T01:27:53","slug":"updating-the-mpep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"Updating the MPEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director David Kappos is looking for your suggestions on updating the MPEP\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/blog\/director\/entry\/reengineering_the_mpep#comments\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The MPEP was a topic of discussion in the oral argument of\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/09-1032.pdf\"><em>Boehringer Ingelheim v. Barr Labs<\/em>, 2009-1032 (Fed. Cir. January 25, 2010)<\/a><\/span> decided just recently.\u00a0 In this sound bite, Judge Prost asks counsel about the meaning of &#8220;consonance&#8221; in MPEP section 804.01 and Judge Dyk inquires whether the meaning of consonance\u00a0given by\u00a0the MPEP is too narrow:\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2009-1032-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director David Kappos is looking for your suggestions on updating the MPEP\u00a0 [Link]. The MPEP was a topic of discussion in the oral argument of\u00a0 Boehringer Ingelheim v. Barr Labs, 2009-1032 (Fed. Cir. January 25, 2010) decided just recently.\u00a0 In this sound bite, Judge Prost asks counsel about the meaning of &#8220;consonance&#8221; in MPEP section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}