In one of its first precedential opinions of the new year, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a claim using “comprising” as a transition phrase followed by a limitation ...

First, every patent claim needs a preamble, which is the introductory phrase in a claim… Second, every patent claim needs a transition. The most common transitions are: “comprising” and “consisting of ...

Contrary to what some people think, making effective paragraph transitions isn't really that difficult. This is because most of the familiar devices used for linking sentences can serve as ...

Xiaoying Wu and Stephen Zou of Lung Tin explain the meaning and evolution of transitional phrases in patent cases in China An invention is defined by patent claims, which are often compared to ...

We have looked into several intrinsic or implicit strategies for making a transition to a new paragraph from the one preceding it. All these strategies begin the new paragraph with a sentence that ...