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The Importance of Getting the Claim Scope Right in a US Patent Application (I)

insights The Importance of Getting the Claim Scope Right in a US Patent Application (I) Letao Qin · October 4, 2021

Unlike the Chinese patent rules or the rules under the European Patent Treaty, both of which require literal or word-by-word support in the specification of a patent application for a claim limitation[1], US patent practice allows, favors, and encourages an applicant to claim more than the examples described in the specification. A common misconception among…

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