Understanding Patent Law (Understanding Series)

About this book

The third edition of Understanding Patent Law provides important and comprehensive coverage for a foundational understanding of patent law including summaries overviews and examples to illustrate the application of the most abstract and complex doctrines. This treatise includes clear and concise summaries of the major cases with straightforward descriptions of the technology at issue. This edition has been revised to enhance the readers understanding of all concepts covered in patent courses. Throughout the book includes discussions of the background policy and historical underpinnings of the primary patent law doctrines to enable an understanding of the reasons that support the doctrine. The work is suitable for developing a working knowledge of the law as well as for students enrolled in a patent law course. This edition has been fully updated and features: Coverage of all major patent law topics with all recent U.S. Supreme Court and appellate court cases including the requirements to obtain a U.S. patent right; post-grant procedures; claim construction methods and procedures; an in-depth treatment of patent infringement defenses to an infringement suit and international considerations; and an overview of the legislative regulatory and court systems that govern the creation issuance and enforcement of the patent right. Updated treatment that covers the groundbreaking cases issued since the last edition including the patentable subject matter cases Alice v. CLS Bank Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Inc. and Mayo Collaborative Services v. Biosig. Discussion of the U.S. Supreme Courts Impression Products Inc. v. Lexmark which shifted the foundation of exhaustion from an intent-based doctrine into a fundamental limitation on the patent right. A new section on the impact of Gunn v. Minton and T.J. Heartland v. Kraft Foods on patent litigation. Additionally the remedies chapter adds four new ground-breaking Supreme Court decisions including Octane Fitness LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness Inc. on willfulness relief and Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc. on monetary damages for design patent infringement. The Courts new standards for assessing the sufficiency of claims from Nautilis v. Biosig is reviewed as well as the appellate review of the construction of claims in Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Sandoz Inc. A review of the Federal Circuits Williamson v. Citrix Online which has become critical to understanding claim construction.