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Revision as of 19:33, 30 August 2009
Contents
Legislation
Relevant parts of US Code
USC 101
Statutory categories (patentable subject matter)
USC 102
About prior art.
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/bpai-under-102e.html
USC 103
Nonobviousness analysis.
(see patently-o's discussion of nonobvious and anticipated)
USC 284
USC 285
Attorney fees
FTC hearings
(What happened about this: FTC hearings about the patent system, announced December 2008)
Patent judgements
Patent applications are initially judged by an examiner at the USPTO. This decision can be appealed to the USPTO's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. The next step is to go to the United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, and the final step, if accepted, would be to go before the United States Supreme Court.[1]
The place for law suits
Most of the world's patent litigation happens in the USA.
Within the USA, a disproportionately large amount of patent litigation takes place in the district of East Texas.[2][3]
See also
- Patent office practice in the USA
- Case law in the USA
- The Patent Reform Act
- in re Bilski
- US FTC report on innovation
- Calculating infringement damages in the USA
External links
- ESP: Resources For Lawyers
- Presention about swpats in USA by Dan Ravicher
- AIPLA: information about software and business method patents in the USA
- FFII's page about swpats in the USA
