Section 162 - Description, claim

1 Citing brief

  1. Association For Molecular Pathology et al v. United States Patent and Trademark Office et al

    MEMORANDUM OF LAW in Support re: 189 MOTION to File Amicus Brief. Brief of Amicus Curiae Genetic Alliance in Opposition to Certain Positions of the Plaintiffs. Document

    Filed December 31, 2009

    Instead, it relaxed the description requirements in view of the fact that new plants were hard to describe under the rigid requirements of § 112, first paragraph. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. at 312; see also Bergy, 596 F.2d at 984; 35 U.S.C. § 162 (1952). Patents granted under the Plant Patent Act still must comply with all other “conditions and requirements” of Title 35, including §§ 102 and 103.