written description requirement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 305 U.S. 47 - Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. · 1938Most cited · 363 citing opinions
The object of the statute is to require the patentee to describe his invention so that others may construct and use it after the expiration of the patent and 'to inform the public during the life of the patent of the limits of the monopoly asserted, so that it may be known which features may be safely used or manufactured without a license and which may not.
How often courts cite the case defining “written description requirement”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “written description requirement” — 363 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.