Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc.

A negative claim limitation satisfies written description only if the disclosure reasonably conveys possession of it; while silence generally will not suffice, in some circumstances a skilled artisan would understand a negative limitation to be necessarily present in the disclosure.

Written by

A language model, from how the MPEP uses this case rather than from the opinion.

Confidence

high — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

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Not reviewed by a person

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