PATENT PROSECUTION, 5TH

Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure, Fifth Edition expertly addresses the substantive changes in the law by the Federal Circuit Court of appeals by providing more and more in-depth treatment of Federal Circuit decisions, making it a resource that is equally strong in its analysis of substantive patent law as it is for prosecution. This treatise is the only source that gives you an element-by-element analysis of the substantive areas of patent law that form the basis of common rejections and objections by the U.S. Patent Office. The author classifies a wide variety of Patent Office rejections and delivers proven response strategies to you, based on U.S. patent law and essential aspects of the prima facie case of unpatentability: utility, anticipation, obviousness, mathematical algorithms, business methods, priority, double patenting, enablement, best mode, and written description. The Fifth Edition also includes a chapter on attorney opinions on matters of patentability, noninfringement, and invalidity.