Patent law
- USPTO main patent page
- USPTO patent law main page
- Patent laws (35 U.S.C.)
- Patent rules (37 CFR)
- MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedure)
- Examination guidance (including recent matters such as 101 subject matter and the AIA)
- America Invents Act:
- See the pre-AIA and post-AIA versions of 35 U.S.C. 102 here.
- Table IPO comparing pre- and post-AIA patent law
Patent procedure
Patent search and information
- Search patents at the USPTO
- Application status check
- Public PAIR (application status check)
- Filing applications online
- What is a reissue patent; see also here
- Continuation versus divisional applications
Claim construction
- David V. Radack, Reading and Understanding Patent Claims.
- MPEP 601.01(n), Dependent Claims
- Reading the OXO measuring cup pagent
America Invents Act
- Before & After: 35 U.S.C. 102
- Before & After: 35 U.S.C. 103
- Table from Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) comparing pre- and post-AIA provisions of U.S. patent law
Patents in the casebook, assignments, or from class
Historical
Interesting or fun
- Peanut butter (306,727)
- Musical instrument support (4,656,917 Eddie Van Halen)
- Method of exercising a cat (5,443,036)
- Wrist web dispenser (5,678,730)
- Method of playing a bowling game (6,142,880)
- Method of swinging on a swing (6,368,227)
- Beerbrella (6,637,447)
- Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual (Application 10/378,423)
- Dog nose art (Application 12/350,916)
- Resources to find interesting patents:
Reading a patent
- Patent 7,849,784 for coffee or tea filtering press (the Aeropress)
- Aeropress page from Aerobie.com (inventor site)
- Aeropress for sale on Amazon.com
- Aeropress.com (Canadian vendor)
- OXO measuring cup (6,263,732)
Subject matter
- Patent 4,259,444 issued to Chakrabarty for microorganisms having multiple compatible degradative energy-generating plasmids and preparation thereof. Info on Dr. Chakrabarty can be found here
- Patents cited in FN10 of Diamond v. Chakrabarty (not in book):
- Patent 6,355,623 in Mayo
- Application No. 08/833,892 in Bilski (starting page 79 of the Joint Appendix)
- Patents 5,970,479, 6,912,510, 7,149,720, and 7,725,375 from Alice Corp.
Novelty/102
- Patent 3,117 in Gayler v. Wilder
- Patent 32,521; reissue Patent RE1,390 in Coffin v. Ogden
- Patents in Verdegaal v. Union Oil: Verdegaal Stoller
- The eat-your-veggie patents in In re Cruciferous Sprout Litigation: 5,725,895, 5,968,567, 5,968,505
- Nicholson patent 11,491 and second reissue 2,748
Nonobviousness/103 (TBA)
- Graham
Infringement/remedies
Trade secrecy law [TBA]
- Uniform Trade Secrets Act
- Florida UTSA
- DTSA
Updated Jan. 2, 2018