{"id":3441,"date":"2010-11-30T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2010-11-30T18:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:55:36","slug":"when-the-seas-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3441","title":{"rendered":"When the seas change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting sound bite from back in 2007 during\u00a0the oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maurice Mitchell Innovations, L.P. v. Intel Corp.<\/span>,\u00a02007-1108 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 24, 2007).\u00a0\u00a0 The patent at issue had been filed in 1987 and had been written with extensive &#8220;means&#8221; language.\u00a0 Fast forward twenty years to 2007 with the claim language under review by the Federal Circuit, Judge Rader inquired\u00a0of counsel to what extent the\u00a0evolution of the law surrounding &#8220;means plus function&#8221; claims should be taken into account: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2007-1108-maurice-excerpt1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit opinion is available here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/07-1108.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that the treatment of &#8220;means plus function&#8221; claims was the sea change of the 90&#8217;s, I think one could argue that the treatment of office actions under <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dayco<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">McKesson<\/span> is the sea change of the twenty-first century.\u00a0 Hopefully, only a temporary rogue wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting sound bite from back in 2007 during\u00a0the oral argument of Maurice Mitchell Innovations, L.P. v. Intel Corp.,\u00a02007-1108 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 24, 2007).\u00a0\u00a0 The patent at issue had been filed in 1987 and had been written with extensive &#8220;means&#8221; language.\u00a0 Fast forward twenty years to 2007 with the claim language under review [&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\/3441"}],"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=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}