Intellectual Property

The title covers the actual mechanics of assembling both basic and complex claims from simple mechanical cases to complex chemical and pharmaceutical cases. Claims define the legal scope of patent protection granted by an issued patent, and also determine the course of the patent prosecution process. It includes technical breadth, legal strategy, and conformance with U.S. statutory law, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office guidelines.
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Get discussion of all stages of patent litigation, sample jury instructions, and issues checklist and litigation forms. It offers tactical strategies for infringement suits, provides checklists of black letter law for claim construction, infringement, validity, doctrine of equivalents and prosecution history estoppel.
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This neutral set of jury instructions, in free PDF format, are not biased in favor of either the patent owner or the accused infringer. They are not intended to address every conceivable issue, but guidance is provided on those issues that typically arise and have clear precedential support. Litigants must tailor these instructions to the specific issues in their particular case. These instructions will be used in conjunction with other instructions dealing with issues that are not specific to patent law.

Find a methodical approach to the estimation of compensation and damages for patent infringement. Patent infringement occurs when a party violates the patent owner's rights, in a variety of ways explained in patent law. Compensation views the issue from the standpoint of the patent owner. Awards for damages are viewed from the standpoint of the patent infringer.
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The work covers a body of law that has emerged from the District Courts and the Federal Circuit to implement the Supreme Court's decisions on patent-eligible subject matter. Topics include remedies, administrative post-grant review, construction claim standards and relationship to PTO Standards.
Bloomberg Law (ID and password required)

This title reflects a continuing effort to provide substantive treatment of relevant decisions and changes in the statutory and regulatory requirements. It includes analyses of the decisions of the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (formerly the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences).

All precedential patent opinions issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit through the end of the current edition are covered, as well as all patent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States through the same time period. It reflects the current state of U.S. patent law within the context of its evolution during the life of the Federal Circuit.
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Claim construction is a major phase of a patent litigation where the meaning and scope of the claims themselves - the invention - is determined by the court. The outcome of this definition phase is crucial to the respective infringement and invalidity positions of the parties. It covers cases and goes further to the sources of the evidence used by past courts to construe the terms in dispute. It includes 3,500 additional entries, some of which focus on biotechnology, pharmacology, clean tech and ordinary skill.
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