Is In re Deuel still the law of the land? The US examination of nonobviousness after KSR v. Teleflex with special emphasis on DNA related inventions
The year 2007 was an extraordinary year for the US Patent System. In a response to far reaching proposals for significant changes in substantive and procedural patent law the House of Representatives adopted the Patent Reform Act in September and the debates were heating up again. Moreover, the U.S. Supreme Court turned its attention to patent issues delivering three major patent judgments and gra