Claim Construction and Doctrine of Equivalents – A review for the Patent Office

BCP meetings are part of a long-standing partnership between the USPTO and its valued stakeholders. The partnership works to improve the quality of the USPTO's products and services. 

The meeting's discussion topics include:

• Claim construction and doctrine of equivalents
• Statutory provisions governing patent infringement: A practical analysis
• Deferred subject matter eligibility response pilot program
• Quality metrics
• Explicit rationales in rejections under 35 U.S.C. 103
• A systematic approach to 35 U.S.C. 112(b)
• Sequence search

Other Speakers:

Christopher Harnett
Daniel Kolker
Kathleen Bragdon
Lora Barnhart Driscoll
Christopher Babic
Gary Benzion
Bennett Celsa
Amjad Abraham
Ashwin Mehta