Description |
1 online resource |
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Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
The first-to-file rule: evolution and application -- Prior art before and after the AIA : two standards compared -- Creating one's own prior art : self-imposed barriers to patentability -- Cancelling prior art and other benefits of record keeping -- Inventing in an employment environment : the aia's new recognition of employer interests and project management -- The novelty threshold : can you recognize it when you see it? -- Confronting the prior art : what makes an invention nonobvious? -- The view from the infringer's side : challenging a patent's validity -- Patent eligibility : pushing the envelope on subject matter appropriate for patenting -- Selected topics in patent strategy. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Bridges the gap between the realistic needs and questions ofscientists and engineers and the legal skills of professionals inthe patent field at a level accessible to those with no legaltraining- Written for inventors in lay terms that they canrelate to or easily follow - Lays out the new features of patent law introduced bythe America Invents Act of 2012- Explains the differences between the first-to-inventand first-to-file rules and why the two rules will coexist- Focuses on the growth of new technologies in industryversus the laws protecting them. |
Subject |
Patent laws and legislation -- United States.
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Patent practice -- United States.
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Brevets d'invention -- Délivrance -- États-Unis. |
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Patent laws and legislation |
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Patent practice |
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United States |
Indexed Term |
Prior art |
Other Form: |
Print version: Heines, M. Henry, 1945- First to file. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2015] 9781118839652 (DLC) 2014012664 |
ISBN |
9781118933183 (electronic bk.) |
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1118933184 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118933176 (electronic bk.) |
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1118933176 (electronic bk.) |
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Standard No. |
9781118933176 |
Music No. |
EB00595853 Recorded Books |
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