What are the benefits of means-plus-function claiming? Claims written this way allow the patentee to describe their invention in terms of a “step” or “means” for performing a specified function without limiting the patent scope to the specific...
The 2017 decision by Justice Sir Colin Birss, which was upheld on appeal by Lord Sir David Kitchin and Lord Justices Sir Christopher David Floyd and Dame Sarah Jane Asplin in the matter of Unwired Planet v. Huawei, bears the potential to alter the Standard Essential...