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Patent Law Digest, 25th Federal Circuit Anniversary Edition
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Table of contents
PART 1: Topical Outline with Abstracts
1000. Patentability
1100. Patentable Subject Matter
1200. Anticipation: 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)
1300. Loss of Right Provisions: 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
1400. Utility: 35 U.S.C. § 101
1500. Obviousness: 35 U.S.C. § 103
1600. Date of Invention: Priority
1700. Double Patenting: Terminal Disclaimers
1800. Originality: Inventorship
1900. Abandonment and Forfeiture: 35 U.S.C. § 102(c)
2000. Specification and Claims: 35 U.S.C. § 112
2100. Enablement Requirement
2200. Description Requirement
2300. Best Mode
2400. Claims
2500. "Regards as His Invention"
3000. Prosecution: Procedures in the Patent and Trademark Office
3100. Late Claiming
3200. Continuation Applications: 35 U.S.C. § 120
3300. Reissue: 35 U.S.C. §§ 251-252
3400. Reexamination: 35 U.S.C. §§ 301-307
3500. New Matter: 35 U.S.C. § 132
3600. Filing Requirements: 35 U.S.C. § 111
3700. Other Procedures and Requirements
4000. Inequitable Conduct
4100. Materiality
4200. Scienter
4300. Balancing Scienter and Materiality
4400. Effect of Inequitable Conduct
4500. Antitrust Consequences: Statute of Limitations
4600. Questions of Law and Fact
4700. Burden of Proof
4800. Duty to the Courts
5000. Infringement
5100. Exclusive Rights
5200. Claim Interpretation
5300. Summary Judgment: Question of Law and Fact
5400. Doctrine of Equivalents and File Wrapper (Prosecution History) Estoppel
5500. Design Patents
5600. Defenses
5700. Burden of Proof
6000. Remedies
6100. Injunctions: 35 U.S.C. § 283
6200. Damages: 35 U.S.C. § 284
6300. Collateral Assessments: 35 U.S.C. §§ 284 and 285
6400. Suits on Foreign Patents
6500. Bad Faith Enforcement
7000. Collateral Estoppel: Law of the Case
7100. Prior Judgments of Validity and Invalidity
7200. Construction of Claims: Infringement
7300. Judgment on Validity and Infringement Findings
7400. Law of the Case
7500. United States International Trade Commission Investigations
8000. Jurisdiction and Review
8100. Subject Matter Jurisdiction
8200. Venue and Personal Jurisdiction: 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b)
8300. Appealable Judgments
8400. Cross-Appeals
8500. Choice of Law on Nonpatent Issues before the Federal Circuit
8600. Standard of Review
9000. Ownership and Transfer of Patent Rights
9100. United States Government Inventions and Patents
9200. Employee and Contractor Inventions: Shop Rights
9300. Assignments and Licenses: Standing to Sue for Infringement
9400. Joint Ownership: Equitable Assignments
9500. Recording in PTO
9600. Patents as Property
PART 2: Case Table with Full Case Citations
PART 3: Chronological Case Table
PART 4: Index