{"id":6035,"date":"2013-06-11T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T01:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2013-06-16T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:19:15","slug":"judge-lourie-on-boilerplate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6035","title":{"rendered":"Judge Lourie on Boilerplate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An appellant was arguing to the court recently that boilerplate preceding the claims section of a patent should preserve a broad claim interpretation even though the specification taught a single embodiment and made a rather strong statement about that embodiment. \u00a0That prompted Judge Lourie to comment that such boilerplate does not expand the disclosure: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2012-1622-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other judges have given boilerplate more importance. \u00a0<em>See<\/em>, <em>e.g.<\/em>, [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5067\">Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Boilerplate<\/a>].  For other posts on boilerplate, see [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5016\">Associate Solicitor Encourages Federal Circuit to Apply Boilerplate from Specification<\/a>] and \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=368\">Summary of the Invention<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument that is referenced above [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2011-1334.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appellant was arguing to the court recently that boilerplate preceding the claims section of a patent should preserve a broad claim interpretation even though the specification taught a single embodiment and made a rather strong statement about that embodiment. \u00a0That prompted Judge Lourie to comment that such boilerplate does not expand the disclosure: [Listen]. [&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\/6035"}],"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=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}