Taylor v. Iancu, No. 18-1070 (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. 11/391,501 (“the ’501 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 ’ 501 application’s claims are indefinite and lack written description. We af- firm on the ground that the ’ 501 application’s claims lack written description.