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Patent Law: High Court’s ‘KSR’ Ruling
May 14, 2007 Full PDF
gation partner Lew Clayton's "Patent Law" column appeared in the May 14 issue of The National Law Journal. The article discusses the Supreme Court's decision in KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., which reshapes rules developed over decades by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to determine when a patent that combines two or more previously known features is invalid as "obvious." This unanimous decision effectively calls on federal district courts to become more actively involved in striking down weak combination patents that are the result of nothing more than what the court called "ordinary innovation." Associate Larry Coury assisted in the preparation of this article.