Patent Law Essentials · A Concise Guide, 5th Edition by Durham, Alan L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright 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-Part 5.3 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 “First Sale”

7 Interpreting Patent Claims

7.1 “Ordinary Meaning” 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 Utility 8.5 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 Litigation

11.1 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 About the Author