In PGR2022-00012 (“-012PGR”), Freedom to Operate, Inc. (“Petitioner”) filed a Request for Rehearing (-012PGR, Paper 19, “Reh’g Req.”) of our Decision Denying Institution of Post-Grant Review, holding that Petitioner had failed to establish that it was more likely than not that any of the claims of U.S. Patent No. 10,947,257 B2 (-012PGR, Ex. 1001, “the ’257 patent”) are unpatentable.
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As we noted in our Decision, the ’257 patent expressly defines “crystalline psilocybin in the form Polymorph A” as “characterized by” the recited peaks in the XRPD diffractogram not only in the claims, but also in the Specification and the prosecution history.
Thus, regardless of the alleged conventional definition of a “polymorph” or “form,” as asserted by Petitioner, the inventors are entitled to act as their own lexicographers to define the phrase “crystalline psilocybin in the form Polymorph A” according to the recited peaks in the XRPD diffractogram.
Moreover, during prosecution, the Examiner rejected original claim 1 as indefinite because it “refer[s] to crystalline psilocybin in the form Polymorph A without any identifying characteristics (i.e. x-ray diffraction pattern data).” Ex. 1060, 7.