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Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 05:41 AM EDT |
with "knowledge of the art" when the language used is NOT "of the
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Authored by: TennSeven on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 06:29 AM EDT |
Even though patents are written by attorneys (who also must
be engineers or scientists) and therefore *may* contain more
"legalese" (it really depends on the attorney's writing
style), the USPTO Examiners who vet them are skilled in the
particular science of the patent and are *not* trained as
lawyers. This process tends to filter out terms that would
be understood only by a lawyer.
Additionally, an examiner that is not asleep at the wheel
will always require that any terms of art that do make it
into the patent, are adequately defined. Most attorneys I
know (including me) accomplish this by including a separate
section of definitions, while others define terms as they
are introduced in the text.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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