Understanding patent law
"Patent law is an important, fascinating, and rapidly changing field. This book was written for all who need to understand these recent changes, as well as for students in intellectual property courses. For those engaged in international practice, this work sheds helpful light on the key doctri...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina
Carolina Academic Press
[2024]
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| Ausgabe: | Fourth edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Carolina Academic Press understanding series
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction to the patent system
- The prosecution process
- Post-grant proceedings
- Patent types
- Claims
- Adjudication of patent disputes
- The disclosure requirements of Section 112
- Enablement
- Written description
- Definiteness
- Best mode
- Overview of [section] 102 : novelty, statutory bars and derivation
- Public knowledge and use
- Patents and printed publications under Sections 102(a) and (b)
- Prior sales and offers for sale
- Abandonment and the pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. [section] 102(c)
- Prior patents under Section 102(d)
- Earlier filed patents and patent applications
- 35 U.S.C. [section] 102(f) derivation and inventorship
- Section 102(g) : the first to invent system
- Nonobviousness
- Utility
- Statutory subject matter
- Claim construction : procedural considerations
- Substantive rules of claim interpretation
- An introduction to patent infringement
- Direct infringement
- Prior use rights
- Infringement under the doctrine of equivalents
- Restrictions on the doctrine of equivalents
- Infringement of mean plus function claim terms
- Experimental use
- Contributory infringement
- Active inducement
- Extraterritorial activity
- Inequitable conduct and the duty to disclose
- Patent misuse
- Patents and antitrust law
- Exhaustion and the first sale doctrine
- Prosecution laches
- Remedies for patent infringement
- International considerations