The Chemist's Companion Guide to Patent La [Hardcover]

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.Disclaimer

Preface.

1 Patent Basics.

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Patents as Property.

1.3 Patent Rights Are Rights to Exclude.

1.4 Patents Do Not Convey Freedom to Operate the Invention.

1.5 Contrasting Freedom to Operate with Patentability.

1.6 Assignment and Recording of Patents.

1.7 Why Have Patents?

2 The Patent Process.

2.1 An Overview of the Patent Process in the United States.

2.2 Post Grant Procedures at the USPTO.

2.2.a Patent Maintenance Fees.

2.2.b Reissue Applications and Patents.

2.2.c Ex Parte Procedures.

2.2.d Inter Partes Procedures.

2.3 Inequitable Conduct in Patent Prosecution.

3 Prior Art and the Chemical Invention.

3.1 What is Prior Art?

3.2 Prior Art That Can Be Antedated.

3.3 Prior Art That Is an Absolute Bar.

3.4 Section 102 References in Support of Obviousness Rejections.

3.5 Double Patenting.

3.6 Obviousness-Type Double Patenting.

3.7 Prior Art Hypothetical£J