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The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. This comprehensive and up-to-date casebook on the law of patents features helpful introductory text, technologically-accessible cases, detailed comments, comparative, policy, and patent reform perspectives. The new Fifth Edition offers up-to-date Federal Circuit and Supreme Court case law, including Helsinn, Impression Products, Halo, and Promega, as well as detailed comments following the principal cases. This edition also features enhanced policy and comparative perspectives, as well as additional materials on patent reform perspectives (e.g. America Invents Act). New to the 5th Edition: Up-to-date federal circuit and Supreme Court case law, including Helsinn, Impression Products, and Halo Detailed substantive comments following the principal cases More statistics and charts, particularly relating to USPTO decision making and PTAB inter partes review Enhanced Policy and Comparative Perspectives Enhanced Patent Reform Perspectives (e.g. America Invents Act) Patent statute (both pre- and post-AIA) included in the back of the book Greater citation and discussion of patent law academic and empirical literature New and updated PowerPoint slides and companion website Professors and students will benefit from: Richness in doctrine, policy, and theory Concise, but thorough coverage Logical and accessible sequencing of chapters Helpful introductions to each chapter, transitional text within sections, and introductions and background information for most cases Detailed comments sections follow the cases, delving into the doctrine and policy, and comparative perspectives Perspectives throughout that provide stimulating points for discussion
Succinct and timely, Patent Law, Sixth Edition demystifies its subject as it explores and explains important cases, judicial authorities, statutes, and policy. Approachably written for law students, attorneys, inventors, and laypersons alike, this text stands on its own and may be used alongside any patent or IP casebook to support more in-depth study of patent law. New to the Sixth Edition: Coverage of the Supreme Court’s ongoing, intensive scrutiny of the America Invents Act (AIA), the most significant change to U.S. patent law in 70 years, including: Helsinn (definition of prior art under the AIA) Cuozzo (non-reviewability of institution decisions) Oil States (Constitutionality of AIA) SAS Institute (rejecting partial institution) Return Mail (federal government not a “person” entitled to post-grant review) Dex Media (cert. granted, reviewability of Board’s time-bar decisions) The burgeoning landscape of patent-eligibility jurisprudence under 35 U.S.C. §101, including Federal Circuit decisions in: Vanda, Cleveland Clinic, Genetic Techs., Endo, Athena Diagnostics (laws of nature) Enfish; Thales Visionix (abstract ideas) Berkheimer, Aatrix, Cellspin (role of fact questions in the Mayo/Alice Step Two “inventiveness” inquiry) Disparate viewpoints for analyzing the bedrock requirement of nonobviousness, including the Federal Circuit’s first en banc obviousness decision in thirty years: Apple v. Samsung The continued vitality of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, as illustrated in a spate of Federal Circuit decisions including: Lilly v. Hospira Supreme Court decisions examining patent infringement remedies, including: WesternGeco (offshore lost profits) NantKwest (cert. granted, attorney fee-shifting in §145 civil actions) Supreme Court decisions cabining long-standing defenses to patent infringement, including: Impression Products (patent exhaustion) SCA Hygiene (laches and equitable estoppel) Professors and students will benefit from: Thorough coverage and clear writing that clarifies principal legal doctrines, key judicial authorities, governing statutes, and policy considerations for obtaining, enforcing, and challenging a U.S. patent In-depth treatment and comparison of pre- and post-America Invents Act regimes for novelty and prior art with numerous hypotheticals Timely statistics on patent trends Succinct analysis of multi-national patent protection regimes Helpful visual aids, such as figures, tables, and timelines A sample patent and breakdown of a prosecution history Boldfaced key terms and a convenient Glossary
In a landmark decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Signature Financial v. State Street Bank held that business methods may be patented. Recently, the US Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos left the door open for the availability of patents for business methods. These holdings, together with the explosive growth of electronic commerce and technology, make the business method patent an important growth area of intellectual property. Now in a revised Looseleaf format, this completely updated Second Edition of Business Method Patents is your guide to the unique opportunities and risks in this emerging area of intellectual property law. Business Method Patents, Second Edition is your authoritative source for expert guidance on: The landmark Supreme Court decision in Bilski v. Kappos USPTO view on business method patents, including an overview of BPAI rulings Mechanics of the patent application Prior art searches Drafting claims for business method or model and e-commerce inventions Drafting the complete specification Drawings required for business method patents Building a strategic patent portfolio Litigating business method patents International protection for business methods
Over the last twenty years, a quiet revolution has taken place in patent law. Before 1982, courts rigorously enforced the nonobviousness requirement, limiting patents to those innovations representing a substantial technical advance. At the same time, once an innovation satisfied this rigorous standard, courts accorded the patent a broad scope by applying a vibrant doctrine of equivalents. Since 1982, the Federal Circuit, with the acquiescence and sometimes the consent of the Court, has rewritten both doctrines, sharply limiting their reach. Through their doctrinal changes, we have moved over the last twenty years from patents that were rarely valid, but if valid, broadly enforced, to patents that are routinely valid, but narrowly enforced. In order to evaluate whether this switch is likely "to Promote the Progress of . . . the useful Arts," this article explores the economics of patents and identifies the uniformity of patent protection as a key to understanding the structure of patent law. Both patent and copyright protect a wide range of innovative products. Some of these innovative products require very little protection to ensure their development and disclosure, while others require considerably more. If we had perfect information, then in the absence of agency and transaction costs, an optimal patent system would individually tailor protection to each innovative product, providing protection just sufficient to ensure each desirable innovation's development and disclosure. Historically, however, the practice of both patent and copyright has been to provide more-or-less uniform protection to all information products that satisfy a given set of prerequisites. Although this uniformity is a potentially rational response to the presence of information, agency, and transaction costs, the fact of uniformity creates a trade-off, in expanding patent protection, between: (i) the social value of the additional information products broader protection ensures; and (ii) the reduced social value associated with the preexisting information products protected more broadly than necessary to secure their discovery and disclosure. Measured against the costs of uniformity, the switch to routinely valid, but narrowly enforced patents has two principal consequences. First, effectively eliminating the nonobviousness requirement will extend patent protection to a wider range of innovative products that would have been forthcoming with no or less protection. Given the trade-off uniformity entails, protecting a wider range of preexisting innovations increases the cost of any given expansion in protection and thereby drags down the optimal level of uniform protection. Eliminating the nonobviousness requirement thus limits the patent system's ability to encourage desirable, but more costly innovation. Second, at the same time, the switch removes from the patent system two of the principal doctrines by which courts could attempt to vary the effective level of protection provided to particular innovations. By reducing the ability of courts to tailor protection to the individually optimal, the switch to routinely valid, but narrowly enforced patents pushes us towards a more uniform, "one size fits all" system of patent protection. As with the first consequence, reducing the legal system's ability to tailor protection to the individually optimal level will limit the patent system's ability to encourage desirable, but more costly innovation. As a result, the switch to routinely valid, but narrowly enforced patents will limit the range of desirable innovations that the patent system can ensure.
The Supreme Court on Patent Law is a digest of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the field of patent law. The author catalogs the Supreme Courtand’s involvement in shaping patent law, from its first cases to the most recent cases, shedding important light on the evolving course of this rapidly-changing practice area. Specifically, this book examines the Courtand’s treatment of patentable subject matter, including a case-by-case analysis in reverse chronological order and by specific topic that describes each case in a short, multi-paragraph format accompanied by key facts, key holdings and select quotations. Additionally, the author considers the Courtand’s treatment of relevant subjects in patent law: claim construction, statutory requirements, prior art defenses, equitable defenses, damages, willful infringement, declaratory judgment jurisdiction and injunctions. The principal areas of the work are the Supreme Courtand’s treatment of: Patent law Patentable subject matter Claim construction Statutory requirements Prior art defenses Equitable defenses Damages Willful infringement Declaratory judgment jurisdiction Injunctions and other remedial matters. This new title provides powerful quotations and an analytical roadmap that practitioners can use in their briefs, in arguments, and in formulating litigation strategy at each stage of the federal court system. RECENT REVIEWS: andquot;In this well organized, readily accessible and highly readable treatise, Michael Kiklis analyzes the serial interventions by the Supreme Court that keep altering the purely statutory patent law as interpreted by the Federal Circuit and understood by patent practitioners. Because these alterations are continuing and even accelerating, practitioners need to anticipate where the Court is headed next if they are to serve their clients well. By stressing trends and explaining dicta for what it may portend, Kiklis provides an invaluable chart for navigating shifting seas.andquot; and– Paul Michel, former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and“In this one volume, Michael Kiklis has filled in a critical gap in our understanding of modern American patent law. Every person interested in the field must study the current Supreme Courtand’s take on patents, and there is no better source than this treatise.andquot; and– Tom Goldstein, Publisher, Scotusblog.com and“The Supreme Court on Patent Law is a tremendous resource for all patent practitioners, but is a must have for all executive level in-house patent counsel. In his treatise, Mike provides a detailed road map that will enable in-house counsel to make better strategic decisions quickly. In a time when more is asked of fewer in less time, this will be the single best go to resource for all things past, current and future in the world of patent law. While we will never know exactly where the Supreme Court will land on a given patent law issue, Mikeand’s road map provides GPS level clarity on the likely destination.and” and– Dave Berdan, Vice President, Intellectual Property, International Game Technology and“The Supreme Court on Patent Law is a great resource for the expert and the novice alike. It offers a straightforward, at-a-glance gateway into every key aspect of patent law, via the most authoritative source available: summaries of and key quotes from all relevant Supreme Court decisions.and” and– Lisa A. Dolak, Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law and“The Supreme Court on Patent Law is a must read for every patent practitioner. The Supreme Court is the most important voice on patents and this tre
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided a remarkable number of patent cases in the past decade, particularly as compared to the first twenty years of the Federal Circuit's existence. No longer is the Federal Circuit “the de facto Supreme Court of patents,” as Mark Janis wrote in 2001. Rather, it seems the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of patents. In the article at the center of this symposium, Judge Timothy Dyk of the Federal Circuit writes that the Supreme Court's decisions “have had a major impact on patent law,” citing, among other evidence, the Court's seventy percent reversal rate in Federal Circuit cases. In this essay, I suggest that the Supreme Court's effect on patent law has actually been more limited, for two reasons in particular. First, the Supreme Court's recent decisions, though substantial in number, have rarely involved the fundamental legal doctrines that directly ensure the inventiveness of patents and regulate their scope. Second, the Supreme Court's minimalist approach to opinion writing in patent cases frequently enables the Federal Circuit to ignore the Court's changes to governing doctrine.
This comprehensive and up-to-date casebook on the law of patents features helpful introductory text, technologically-accessible cases, detailed comments, comparative, policy, and patent reform perspectives. The new Fifth Edition offers up-to-date Federal Circuit and Supreme Court case law, including Helsinn, Impression Products, Halo, and Promega, as well as detailed comments following the principal cases. This edition also features enhanced policy and comparative perspectives, as well as additional materials on patent reform perspectives (e.g., America Invents Act). New to the 6th Edition: Restructuring and resequencing of chapters Extensive discussion of America Invents Act New Principal cases Updated Comments Professors and students will benefit from: Richness in doctrine, policy, and theory. Concise, but thorough coverage. Logical and accessible sequencing of chapters. Helpful introductions to each chapter, transitional text within sections, and introductions and background information for most cases. Detailed comments sections follow the cases, delving into the doctrine and policy, and comparative perspectives. Perspectives throughout that provide stimulating points for discussion.
The book was created to discuss why the specialist patent courts fail to abide by the various federal rules, and precisely how the Supreme Court has sought to correct the “notorious difference” between the patent office assessment of patentability and the patent court assessment of patentability of an invention first identified in the 1966 Graham case. I have been close to that issue for nearly half a century, and the book is my analysis of the problem.The book explores many instances where the lack of judicial experience with rules of procedure, of evidence, and of law lead to questionable decisions. The judicial experience of trying cases as an advocate is also lacking in many of the patent court judges. I certainly did not have that experience when I was a law clerk just out of law school, but I have had experience in the nearly half-century since then. It is clear from the 33 cases where the Supreme Court has reviewed patent court decisions that the Supreme Court has a different perspective on patents from that of the specialist patent courts.Most writings about patents come from the perspective of (1) the Patent and Trademark Office; (2) the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) patent applicants; (4) patent owners; or (5) advocates of a political position respecting patents.These perspectives are not helpful in determining what the law is regarding patents. The judicial department of government has the duty “to say what the law is” (Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 178 (1803)). The political departments of government (executive and legislative) have responsibilities in administering the patent law, but not in saying what the law is. The Supreme Court is head of the judicial department, and it is the perspective of the Supreme Court, not the Federal Circuit, that ultimately controls what the law is.The Supreme Court has reviewed patent decisions by the two specialist patent courts of appeal (the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the Federal Circuit) a total of 33 times since 1966. All 33 of these cases are studied in this book. The book shows that the decision of the patent court has been overturned in two thirds of the cases reviewed. Even when the patent court decision is affirmed, the reasoning is often criticized by the Court. The book approaches the development of patent law from the perspective of the Supreme Court, and shows that the writings from the usual perspectives are not accurate assessments of what the law is. No other writing views patent law from this perspective. In a few cases, the book criticizes the Supreme Court decision on appeal as deviating from earlier Supreme Court precedents. In those cases, the reasons for the assertion that the Court erred are given, recognizing, as it must, that the perspective of the Supreme Court is final, not because it is infallible; it is infallible only because it is final (Jackson, J., Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443 (1953)).