Tips Offered on Patent Claim Drafting Under Bilski Machine-or-Transformation Test

摘要

The "machine-or-transformation" test described by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit can often be met with added claim limitations, practitioners said during a Feb. 18 audioconference. Sponsored by BNA's Legal & Business EDge division, the conference offered the insights of practitioners Kenneth N. Nigon of RatnerPrestia, Valley Forge, Pa., and Stephen C. Durant of Duane Morris, San Francisco, on drafting claims and seeking to reissue patents put in doubt by the court's Bilski decision.