Thanks to everyone who supplied comments to the draft proposal, based upon which improvements have been made in the original paper. The proposal is for a rewritten Rule 73 to cabin the “broadest reasonable interpretation” standard as well as ancillary changes, as explained in the attached paper: “The ‘Broadest Reasonable [Claim] Interpretation’ and Other Shortcomings in the Patent Rules: A Proposal for a New Rule 73.”
Rule 73-facilitated Improved Patent Drafting: The Rule 73 proposal, here, is to teach how to present a clean, simple Summary of the Invention that focuses upon a clear definition of an element of the claimed invention at the point of novelty, whereby such clear definition will cabin an otherwise “broadest reasonable interpretation”.
Ad Hoc Reform without a Rules Change: Short of a Rules change, the paper explains how to draft a Summary of the Inventionto cabin an otherwise “broadest reasonable interpretation” of the claims at the point of novelty.
Regards,
Hal