Understanding Patent Law
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This Understanding treatise provides important and comprehensive coverage to complement the study of patent law, and is suitable for use with any patent law casebook. Understanding Patent Law features:
• Up-to-date coverage of all major patent law topics, including the requirements to obtain a U.S. patent right, post-grant procedures, claim construction methods and procedures, all patent infringement theories, defenses to an infringement suit, international considerations, and an overview of the legislative, regulatory, and court systems that govern the creation, issuance, and enforcement of the right;
• Overviews and examples which illustrate the application of the most abstract and complex doctrines;
• Clear and concise summaries of the major cases, including straightforward descriptions of the technology at issue;
• Clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of all concepts and covered in patent and intellectual property courses; and
• Discussions of the policy and historical underpinnings of the primary patent law doctrines.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PATENT SYSTEM
Chapter 2 THE US PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE: OBTAINING THE PATENT RIGHT
Chapter 3 PROCEDURES AFTER A PATENT IS GRANTED
Chapter 4 CLAIMS
Chapter 5 PATENT TYPES
Chapter 6 ADJUDICATION OF PATENT DISPUTES WITHIN THE COURT SYSTEM
Chapter 7 OVERVIEW: THE DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS OF § 112
Chapter 8 ENABLEMENT
Chapter 9 WRITTEN DESCRIPTION
Chapter 10 DEFINITENESS
Chapter 11 BEST MODE
Chapter 12 OVERVIEW OF § 102: NOVELTY, STATUTORY BARS AND DERIVATION
Chapter 13 SECTION 102(a) & (b): PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND USE
Chapter 14 SECTION 102(a) and (b): PATENTS AND PRINTED PUBLICATIONS
Chapter 15 SECTION 102(b): THE ON-SALE BAR
Chapter 16 SECTION 102(c): ABANDONMENT
Chapter 17 35 U.S.C. § 102(d): PRIOR PATENT
Chapter 18 SECTION 102(e): PATENTS AND PATENT APPLICATIONS
Chapter 19 35 U.S.C. § 102(f) DERIVATION AND INVENTORSHIP
Chapter 20 SECTION 102(g): PRIORITY OF INVENTION
Chapter 21 NONOBVIOUSNESS
Chapter 22 UTILITY
Chapter 23 STATUTORY SUBJECT MATTER
Chapter 24 PROCEDURES FOR CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 25 HOW TO INTERPRET PATENT CLAIM TERMS
Chapter 26 CANONS OF CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 27 AN INTRODUCTION TO PATENT INFRINGEMENT
Chapter 28 DIRECT INFRINGEMENT
Chapter 29 INFRINGEMENT UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF EQUIVALENTS
Chapter 30 RESTRICTIONS ON THE DOCTRINE OF EQUIVALENTS
Chapter 31 CLAIM CONSTRUCTION OF MEAN PLUS FUNCTION CLAIM TERMS
Chapter 32 EXPERIMENTAL USE
Chapter 33 CONTRIBUTORY INFRINGEMENT
Chapter 34 ACTIVE INDUCEMENT
Chapter 35 EXTRATERRITORIAL ACTIVITY AND PATENT INFRINGEMENT
Chapter 36 INEQUITABLE CONDUCT
Chapter 37 PATENT MISUSE
Chapter 38 PATENTS AND ANTITRUST LAW
Chapter 39 THE FIRST SALE DOCTRINE
Chapter 40 PROSECUTION LACHES
Chapter 41 REMEDIES FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT
Chapter 42 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND THE
GLOBALIZATION OF PATENTS
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Table of Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TC-1
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I-1