Claims of an invention may be defined in terms of functional limitations of the structural component, rather than defining the structural component itself. This is important in situations where an invention may only be defined in functional terms, but in practical terms there remains a grey area to address enablement and indefiniteness of such functional claims.
Article by Manisha Singh and Pradeep Kumar Kamal
1st published in The Life Sciences Segment of The Patent Lawyer (CTC Media)
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