To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a catch phrase well known and of ancient origin. Benjamin Franklin even had a wry turn at it in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741: "Beauty, like supreme dominion is but supported by opinion." As it turns out, however, in the opinion of the District Court of Delaware, "beauty," or in this case, enhancement of the skin is not a term one ought to have in their patent claims, because that which relies on opinion is indefinite in the eyes of the court.