Law360, New York ( May 7, 2013, 12:21 PM EDT) -- On Feb. 15, 2013, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit released In re Jasinski, a nonprecedential opinion[1] overturning a Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ("BPAI") ruling. The BPAI had issued a decision upholding a rejection of a method claim based on an anticipatory reference by reasoning that functional language used in the method claim was not a limitation.[2] The functional language was cited in the body of the claim and nested within another functional phrase as follows: "comparing said fail memory locations derived by said logical-to-physical mapping software to said various predetermined memory locations to verify the accuracy of said logical-to-physical mapping software."[3] The BPAI deemed the functional language "to verify the accuracy of said logical-to-physical mapping software" to be merely a statement of intended use.[4]...