Kearsarge Walpole LLC v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Walpole involved a dispute over where a large-scale solar array could be placed in Walpole, Massachusetts. In Kearsarge, a solar developer (Kearsarge), along with Norfolk County Agricultural High School (Norfolk Aggie), and Norfolk County, entered into an agreement to construct a solar facility on the Norfolk Aggie campus, which is located in Walpole’s rural residential zoning district.

Kearsarge applied to the Walpole building commissioner for a building […]

It is long-standing practice for examining divisions at the European Patent Office to require the description of a patent application to be amended into conformity with the allowable claims prior to grant.

However, in 2021, the patent office’s guidelines for examination were updated to make this requirement more stringent. The issue of description amendment has been a hot topic ever since.

This is because of applicants’ and attorneys’ general aversion to substantial amendment to the description […]