The Chemist's Companion Guide to Patent Law

by Chris P. Miller; Mark J. Evans

• ISBN13: 9780470636893
• ISBN10: 0470636890
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Written by an individual with experience as both a chemist and a patent attorney, The Chemist's Companion Guide to Patent Law covers everything the student or working chemist needs to know about patentability, explaining important concepts of patent law (such as novelty, non-obviousness, and freedom-to-operate) in easy-to-understand terms. Through abundant examples from case law as well as real-world situations with which a researcher might be faced, this book provides readers with a better understanding of how to put that knowledge into practice.

Table of Contents

Disclaimer

Foreword

Patent Basics

Introduction

Patents as Property

Patent Rights are Rights to Exclude

Patents do not convey the Freedom-to-Operate the Invention

Contrasting Freedom-to-Operate with Patentability

Assignment and Recordation of Patents

Why Have Patents?

The Patent Process

An Overview of the Patent Process in the United States

Post Grant Procedures at the USPTO

Patent Maintenance Fees

Reissue Applications and Patents

Ex partes Patent Reexamination Procedures

Inter Partes Patent Reexamination Procedures

Inequitable Conduct in Patent Prosecution

Prior Art and the Chemical Invention

What is Prior Art?

Prior Art that Can be Antedated

Prior Art that is an Absolute Bar

§102 References in Support of Obviousness Rejections

Double Patenting

Obviousness-Type Double Patenting

Hypothetical Example 1

Hypothetical Example 2

Inventorship

Patent Claims

Basic Requirements of Patentability: Utility

Basic Requirements of Patentability: Novelty

Basic Requirements of Patentability: Nonobviousness

Basic Requirements of Patentability: Written Description, Enablement and Best Mode

Afterward and Sources

Table of Cases

Appendix

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