The Written Description Training Materials and Ex parte Porro
Patent Docs: By Donald Zuhn — Last month, we reported on a presentation that Dr. George Elliott, Group 1600 Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, gave at this year’s BIO International Convention (see “Docs at BIO: Representatives from JPO, EPO, SIPO, and USPTO Discuss Recent Developments in Japan, Europe, China, and the U.S.” and “Docs at BIO: “Gotcha” Games Continue at USPTO”). Among the topics that Dr. Elliott addressed during his presentation were the new written description training materials — specifically, Example 11, which concerns claims directed to a polynucleotide or polypeptide sequence that shares percent identity with another sequence….