Patent law essentials : a concise guide / Alan L. Durham.
2018
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Title
Patent law essentials : a concise guide / Alan L. Durham.
Published
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2018]
Call Number
KF3114.85 .D87 2018
Edition
Fifth edition.
ISBN
9781440859885 (hardcopy ; alk. paper)
1440859884 (hardcopy ; alk. paper)
9781440859892 (ebook)
1440859884 (hardcopy ; alk. paper)
9781440859892 (ebook)
Description
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1004376234
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Durham, Alan L., 1963- Patent law essentials. [Fifth edition]. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2018] 9781440859892 (OCoLC)1004376682
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
xi
1.
Overview
1
1.1.
Origins
1
1.2.
Summary and Road Map
3
1.3.
Sources of Law
7
2.
Patents Distinguished From Other Rights
9
2.1.
Copyrights
9
2.2.
Trademarks
11
2.3.
Trade Secrets
12
2.4.
Patents
14
3.
Reading A Patent
17
3.1.
General Information
18
3.2.
Drawings
20
3.3.
Specification
20
3.4.
Claims
22
4.
Patentable Subject Matter
25
4.1.
Laws and Phenomena of Nature
26
4.2.
Living Organisms
30
4.3.
Abstract Ideas
31
4.4.
Business Methods
34
4.5.
Mental Processes
36
4.6.
Computer Programs
37
4.7.
Printed Matter
40
5.
Patent Prosecution
43
5.1.
Examination
43
5.2.
Continuations and Continuations-in-Part
46
5.3.
Divisional Applications
48
5.4.
Interferences and Derivation Proceedings
49
5.5.
Reissue
49
5.6.
Reexamination and Review
52
6.
Ownership and Other Rights
57
6.1.
Inventorship
57
6.2.
Assignments
60
6.3.
Licenses
61
6.4.
Exhaustion and "First Sale"
64
7.
Interpreting Patent Claims
69
7.1.
"Ordinary Meaning"
74
7.2.
Specification
76
7.3.
Prosecution History
81
7.4.
Other Claims
83
7.5.
Validity
84
7.6.
Preambles
85
7.7.
Special Claim Formats
88
8.
Conditions of Patentability
97
8.1.
Examination and Litigation
97
8.2.
Presumption of Validity
98
8.3.
Assignor Estoppel
100
8.4.
Utility
101
8.5.
Definiteness
104
8.6.
Enablement
110
8.7.
Best Mode
116
8.8.
Written Description Requirement
119
8.9.
Novelty and Obviousness
124
8.10.
Double Patenting
176
9.
Enforceability Defenses
181
9.1.
Inequitable Conduct
181
9.2.
Misuse
186
10.
Infringement
191
10.1.
Patent Term
192
10.2.
Geographic Limitations
194
10.3.
State of Mind
196
10.4.
Direct and Indirect Infringement
196
10.5.
Literal Infringement
201
10.6.
Doctrine of Equivalents
204
10.7.
Equivalence in the Context of Means-Plus-Function Claims
227
10.8.
Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents
230
10.9.
Experimental Use Defense
231
10.10.
Prior Commercial Use Defense
233
11.
Patent Litigation
235
11.1.
Jurisdiction and Venue
237
11.2.
Declaratory Judgment
239
11.3.
Burden of Proof
241
11.4.
Role of Judge and Jury
242
11.5.
Bifurcation
244
11.6.
Preliminary Injunctions
244
11.7.
Summary Judgment
246
11.8.
Remedies
247
11.9.
International Trade Commission
262
11.10.
Judgments of Invalidity
263
12.
Special Topics
265
12.1.
Design Patents
265
12.2.
Plant Patents
270
Note on Sources
273
Appendix A
Sample Utility Patents
275
Appendix B
Sample Design Patents
293
Index
301