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Course Description
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Additional Course Materials
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Course Description
LAW 286, 3 units.

This course provides an introduction to essentially all substantive aspects of patent law, including the legal doctrines, public policies, and intellectual theories that inform the practices of patent prosecution, counseling, and litigation. You will initially develop an understanding of the form and substance of the patent instrument, with particular attention to the claims that define the substantive scope of the patent grant. You will then study the statutory requirements for obtaining a patent grant, including utility, novelty, non-obviousness, and adequacy of disclosure. Finally, you will examine the law governing patent infringement, including literal infringement and infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, as well as the applicable defenses and remedies. No prior technical background or knowledge is required or expected, but students should be comfortable with expository readings in science and technology.

Fall 2023 syllabus

 
Text
Adelman et al., Cases and Materials on Patent Law (5th ed. 2019); you should also print out a copy of the Patent Act.
 
 
Additional Course Materials
Can you get a cheaper Epipen? (Class 2)
How marketing turned the Epipen into a billion dollar business (Class 2)
Epipen patent
and video ; Adrenaclick video (Class 2)
Reading on patent valuation (Class 2)
Some patents allowed to lapse after 4 1/2 years: #1 #2 #3 (Class 2)
Option valuation calculator (Class 2) (beta version)
Basics of Claim Drafting (Class 4)
Advanced Claim Drafting Tips (cont'd) (Class 5)
Workspaces: Group 1 / 2 / 3
Gordon Gould obituary (Class 5)
Enablement Worksheet (Class 6)
Amgen v. Sanofi (Class 6)
Written Description Training Materials
(Class 7) (optional)
Written Description and the "Possession" Puzzle  (Class 7) (PowerPoint slides; optional) (see also)
Shore (Hardness) Testing of Plastics (Class 7)
Comments by Prof. Shepard on amended best mode requirement (Class 7)
Pfaff v. Wells (Class 9)
Rule 131 Affidavit (Class 8)
AIA Videos (USPTO: watch First Inventor to File Changes, videos #1-#4, with accompanying AIA handouts below)
AIA Outline and Hypotheticals (Class 15)
MPEP § 2143 excerpt (Class 15)
Are Secondary Considerations Still Secondary? (Class 15)
In re Deuel (Class 16)
Artful Prior Art article (to accompany Deuel) (Read 1001-06, 1009-16)
Class slides on Artful Prior Art  
USPTO Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance (Class 19)
Slides from Bilski presentation (Class 20)
USPTO's "Abstract Idea" Training Examples (Class 20)
Claim Construction: A Structural Framework (Class 23)
 
 
Links of Interest
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Located in a massive complex in Arlington, Virginia, the USPTO is a self-financed agency of the Department of Commerce that issues patents and registers trademarks.  Its Web site includes a searchable database of patents and published patent applications from which you can retrieve the text and drawings of every U.S. patent issued since 1976, as well as prosecution history files for most recent patent applications.

Patently-O
The latest news from the patent law world, helpfully digested by Prof. Dennis Crouch of the University of Missouri School of Law.

 
   
   
   
   
   
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