{"id":28,"date":"2013-09-19T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-09-19T18:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T22:38:50","slug":"can-a-plurality-of-patent-lawyers-writing-a-plurslity-of-patents-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Can a Plurality of Patent Lawyers Writing A Plurality of Patents be Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps patent lawyers most\u00a0favorite word is &#8220;plurality.&#8221; It is a convenient way to say &#8220;two or more&#8221; in a patent.\u00a0 Its long standing use (the word plurality appears in 2,503,611 patents\u00a0since 1976 &#8212; just under 50% of\u00a0patents issuing) and well established construction by the Federal Circuit (<em>see<\/em>, <em>e.g.<\/em>, <em>Dayco Products, Inc. v. Total Containment, Inc.<\/em>, 258 F.3d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2001)\u00a0make it a reasonable choice in a patent application.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0&#8220;plurality&#8221; may not be as\u00a0lay person\u00a0friendly as &#8220;two\u00a0or more,&#8221;\u00a0it is not\u00a0obscure, and\u00a0is easily explained in a claim construction.\u00a0 Moreover &#8220;two or more&#8221; might not be given the same range of equivalents as\u00a0&#8220;plurality.&#8221;\u00a0 Thus, the plurality of patent attorneys who use the word, probably have it right, although it would be hard to fault\u00a0a prosecutor who preferred to use &#8220;two or\u00a0more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps patent lawyers most\u00a0favorite word is &#8220;plurality.&#8221; It is a convenient way to say &#8220;two or more&#8221; in a patent.\u00a0 Its long standing use (the word plurality appears in 2,503,611 patents\u00a0since 1976 &#8212; just under 50% of\u00a0patents issuing) and well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}