The Chemists Companion Guide to Patent Law

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.

Spis treści:
Disclaimer.
Foreword.
Chapter 1. Patent Basics.
1. Introduction.
2. Patents as Property.
3. Patent Rights are Rights to Exclude.
4. Patents do not convey the Freedom–to–Operate the Invention.
5. Contrasting Freedom–to–Operate with Patentability.
6. Assignment and Recordation of Patents.
7. Why Have Patents?
Chapter 2. The Patent Process.
1. An Overview of the Patent Process in the United States.
2. Post Grant Procedures at the USPTO.
a. Patent Maintenance Fees.
b. Reissue Applications and Patents.
c. Ex partes Patent Reexamination Procedures.
d. Inter Partes Patent Reexamination Procedures.
3. Inequitable Conduct in Patent Prosecution.
Chapter 3. Prior Art and the Chemical Invention.
1. What is Prior Art?
2. Prior Art that Can be Antedated.
3. Prior Art that is an Absolute Bar.
4. §102 References in Support of Obviousness Rejections.
5. Double Patenting.
6. Obviousness–Type Double Patenting.
7. Hypothetical Example 1.
8. Hypothetical Example 2.
Chapter 4. Inventorship.
Chapter 5. Patent Claims.
Chapter 6. Basic Requirements of Patentability: Utility.
Chapter 7. Basic Requirements of Patentability: Novelty.
Chapter 8. Basic Requirements of Patentability: Nonobviousness.
Chapter 9. Basic Requirements of Patentability: Written Description, Enablement and Best Mode.
Chapter 10. Afterward and Sources.
Table of Cases.
Appendix.