Patent Law Essentials: A Concise Guide [5th edition] 9781440859892, 9781440859885, 1440859892

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1: Overview
1.1: Origins
1.2: Summary and Road Map
1.3: Sources of Law
2: Patents Distinguished from Other Rights
2.1: Copyrights
2.2: Trademarks
2.3: Trade Secrets
2.4: Patents
3: Reading a Patent
3.1: General Information
3.2: Drawings
3.3: Specification
3.4 Claims
4: Patentable Subject Matter
4.1: Laws and Phenomena of Nature
4.2: Living Organisms
4.3: Abstract Ideas
4.4: Business Methods
4.5: Mental Processes
4.6: Computer Programs
4.7: Printed Matter
5: Patent Prosecution
5.1: Examination. 5.2: Continuations and Continuations-in-Part5.3: Divisional Applications
5.4: Interferences and Derivation Proceedings
5.5: Reissue
5.6: Reexamination and Review
6: Ownership and Other Rights
6.1: Inventorship
6.2: Assignments
6.3: Licenses
6.4: Exhaustion and â#x80
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7: Interpreting Patent Claims
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7.2: The Specification
7.3: The Prosecution History
7.4: Other Claims
7.5: Validity
7.6: Preambles
7.7: Special Claim Formats
8: Conditions of Patentability
8.1: Examination and Litigation
8.2: Presumption of Validity
8.3: Assignor Estoppel. 8.4: Utility8.5: Definiteness
8.6: Enablement
8.7: Best Mode
8.8: Written Description Requirement
8.9: Novelty and Obviousness
8.10: Double Patenting
9: Enforceability Defenses
9.1: Inequitable Conduct
9.2: Misuse
10: Infringement
10.1: Patent Term
10.2: Geographic Limitations
10.3: State of Mind
10.4: Direct and Indirect Infringement
10.5: Literal Infringement
10.6: The Doctrine of Equivalents
10.7: Equivalence in the Context of Means-Plus-Function Claims
10.8: The Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents
10.9: The Experimental Use Defense
10.10: The Prior Commercial Use Defense. 11: Patent Litigation11.1: Jurisdiction and Venue
11.2: Declaratory Judgment
11.3: Burden of Proof
11.4: The Role of Judge and Jury
11.5: Bifurcation
11.6: Preliminary Injunctions
11.7: Summary Judgment
11.8: Remedies
11.9: The International Trade Commission
11.10: Judgments of Invalidity
12: Special Topics
12.1: Design Patents
12.2: Plant Patents
Note on Sources
Appendix A: Sample Utility Patents
Appendix B: Sample Design Patents
Index
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