Patent Law Essentials: A Concise Guide

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
 7.1: â#x80
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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
 About the Author.