Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure, With Online Cumulative Case Digest

Effectively prepare and process a patent application, protect a client s patent, or invalidate an infringing one This treatise provides essential analysis of significant changes to U.S. patent law resulting from decisions of the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and places new substantive discussions in context with existing patent laws and regulations. It also explains prosecution rules from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and offers an element-by-element analysis of areas of patent law that form the basis of common PTO rejections and objections, which can also be used in litigation in federal court. The Ninth Edition analyzes and highlights the significance of recent Supreme Court cases on patent issues such as patent-ineligible abstract ideas, patentability of products of nature, claim definiteness, and induced infringement.