Taylor v. Iancu, No. 18-1047 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 3, 2020)

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William Michael Frederick Taylor (“Mr. Taylor”) sued the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“Pa- tent Office”) under 35 U.S.C. § 145, challenging the Patent Office’s rejection of U.S. Application Serial No. 11/807,860 (“the ’860 application”) , of which Mr. Taylor is the inven- tor.1 The district court granted summary judgment to the Patent Office, concluding that all of the ’860 application’s claims are not enabled and are indefinite. We affirm on the ground that the ’860 application’s claims lack enablement.