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"Patent Pending" Kit/eBook index
To help you better appreciate the comprehensiveness of our "Patent Pending" Kit/inventor's guide we present the actual eBook index for your review:
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§101 background art section, utility and the, 95 nonfunctional descriptive material, 60 ordinary skill in the art examples, legal test, 60 ordinary skill in the art test, and, 60 patentable subject matter evaluation, 58 patentable subject matter requirements, 59, 60 provisional applications, and, 86 utility, 22 utility, definition of, 58, 60 utility, description requirement, 44 utility, establishment of, 59 utility, theory of operation, incorrect, 59 written description requirement, and, 105 §102 (g) characteristics, 72 §103, 75 §112 (1) adiquacy, presumption of, 102 best mode, 100 best mode, 101 best mode, 109 checklist, 106 complying with, 103 conflicts in disclosure, 105 enablement, 102, 122 examination procedure, 101, 102, 103 experimentation, undue, 101 inoperative embodiments, 111, 122 make and use, 101 patentable subject matter, and, 105 summary list, 105 terms, undefined specification, 105 undue experimentation, evidence of, 122 unpredictability in the art, and, 105 unsupported elements, 123 variation in the art, and high, 106 written description, 101, 102, 103 §113, 91 A Abstracts, patent, 82 Admissions by Applicant, 70 claims, 114 detailed description, drafting of, 120 drawings, issues regarding, 99 obviousness, requirements for, 76 written description requirement, §112 (1), 101 written description requirement, §112 (1) issues in, 121 Agents, patent, 130 Alternative embodiments. See Specification/embodiments American Inventors Protection Act, 40 Application data sheet, 29, 30, 38, 39, 93, 138 Assignments, 35, See also Ownership Attorneys, patent, 130 B Background art section, 94 checklist, 95 derogatory remarks, 95 drafting guide questions, 96 invention, do not discuss your, 95 validity remarks, 95 writing style tips, 95, 108 C Canceled matter, 64 Certificate of mailing defined, 131 form, official, 171 actions to take after conception, 42 drafting background art section, 95 drawings, preparation of, 98 written description requirement, satisfying, 106 Claim interpretation, 26, 101 Festo, 27, 79 Claims, 53, 56, 63, 66, 76, 79, 81, 82, 83, See also Patents, and Provisional patent applications defined, 131 drafting tips, 113 independent claims, 83 information, points of, 114 process, 61 scope, 102, 103, 122, See tables in, 114 Co-inventors. See Joint Applicants Commercial potential evaluation. See also Marketability Compact disc application submissions, 94, 119, 125, 126, 127 Conception afterwards, steps to take, 42 date of, 65 documenting, 44 establishing, 72 proof of, 73 proving before diligence, 75 Constructive reduction to practice. See Reduction to practice/constructive Copyrights defined, 131 Correspondence address. See Filing the provisional application/correspondence address Correspondence with the USPTO, 30 Credit card, paying by. See Filing the provisional application/credit card Critical date, 67 Cross reference to related applications, 129 D Deadline for filing regular patent application, 129 Description of the invention. See Specification Design patents, 86 Detailed description of the invention. See Specification Diligence, 65, 67, 74 attorney, 74 degrees of, 75 engineering, 74 lack of, 75 when necessary, 72 Disclosure Documents, 44, 62 Doctrine of equivalents, 27, 66 Do-it-yourself. See Pro se Drawings advanced issues, 99 analysis, patent drawing, 83 background section, in, 95 brief description section, 99 checklist,preparation of, 98 formal, 97 informal, 96, 97 new matter, 97 not required if, 99 omitted figures, 99 software to use, 97 tips on preparing, 97 when required, 97 Duty to disclose, 84 E Employer ownership of invention, 57 Enablement of the invention. See §112 (1) enablement Evaluations commercial potential, 46 inventorship, 56 ownership, 57 patent analysis, 82 patentable subject matter, 58, 60 provisional application, deciding if appropriate, 87 Experimental use factors indicative of, 71 Express mail service, 125 F Fees nonprovisional applications, 21 provisional application, filing, 127 small entity status. See Small entity status Filing the provisional application, 125 after filing, issues, 129 checks, payment by, 127 confirmation number, 128 correspondence address, 29, 30 cover sheet, 92 credit card, paying by, 125 date accorded, 21, 25, 97, 102, 105 filing receipt, 33, 128 forms, official filing, 162 general information, 29, 31 incomplete applications, 31, 32 inventorship issues, 35 postcard receipt, 128 Power of Attorney, 125 requirements, 91 small entity status. See Small entity status Filing the provisional patent application, 30 First-to-invent, 65 Flowcharts. See Specification/flowcharts Foreign patent priority claim, 21 claim, including at least one, 112 filing receipt, and, 34 issues, common, 25, 29, 33, 35, 42, 63 on sale prohibition, and, 69 Paris Convention deadline, 22 postcard receipt, and, 128 Forms, filing, 162 G Glossary of patent terms, 130 I Incorporation by reference application secrecy exception, 79 how to, 96 submissions, 121 Information disclosure statement, 94 Information disclosure statements, 91, 95 Information, lists of. See also Advanced information, and Summaries abandonment, invention, 73 claim novelty, 66 diligence, 74 drawings, application, 97 first-to-invent, characteristics of, 72 inventorship, correction of, 35 obviousness, invention, 75 on-sale prohibition, issues in, 69 patentability issues, 62 patentable matter requirement, §101, 59 post filing issues, 129 prior-art, 85 provisional patent applications, 24 provisional patent applications, filing of, 29 public knowledge, what is, 64 public use issues, 67 submissions to USPTO, requirements for,, 126 title of the invention, 93 International issues. See Foreign patent priority claim International patent rights, 63 Internet search engines, useful, 80 Invention abandonment of, 72, 73 assignment of. See Agreements/assignments concealment of, 72 date of, 62, 71 dedication to the public, 73 definition of, 65 embodiments. See Specification/embodiments first-to-invent, definition in, 73 inherent properties. See Specification/inherent matter marketing. See Marketing Patent Pending status, 129 protection, 23 theft of, avoiding, 129 theory of operation, understanding of, 114 title. See Title of the invention when complete, 72 where done matters, 71 Inventor duty to disclose, 84 multiple inventors. See Joint Applicants non-signing inventor. See Non-signing inventor Inventor’s notebook, 52, 62 reasons to maintain, 53, 65, 72 Inventorship, 34, 52 correction of, 34, 35, 93 deceptive intent, 53, 55 evaluation, 56 facts, 54 issues, 55 J Joint Applicants contribution statement, 53 inventorship issues, 55 joint owner’s agreement, 53, 54 name order immaterial, 93 Joint inventors. See Joint Applicants Joint owner’s agreement, 53 L Laboratory notebook. See Inventor’s notebook Litigation. See Patents/litigation M Mailing address, 30 Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, online, 133 Marketability, 22, 43 evaluation of, commercial potential, 46 Marketing, x, 16, 21, 53, 69, 70, 74, 84, 89, 100, 129, See also Invention/marketing expert analysis, 3rd party, 51 performance factors, invention, 51 Money saving tips, 94 MPEP. See Manual of Patent Examining Procedure Multiple inventors. See Joint Applicants
N Name of the invention. See Title of the invention New matter, 23, 101, 105 assignments, 36 best mode, and, 105 consequences, 23 drawings exception, 120 drawings, in the, 97 general information, 123 submissions, compact disk, 127 submissions, substitute, 127 Nonprovisional patent applications claiming priority, 36, 37, 38 claiming priority examples, 39 claiming priority late, 39 claims, 102 confidentiality, 85 drafting fees, 21 effective filing date, 21 general information. See Patent applications, general legal issues, 26 new matter, 23, 120 office actions, 102 priority date, 21 publication of, 85 reverse conversion, 37 Non-signing inventor, 55
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O Obviousness analogous art, 81 basic points, 75 motivation to combine, 77 requirements for, 76 secondary considerations, 76 test of, 76 Office action. See Nonprovisional patent applications/office actions Opinion practitioner, when needed, 78, 84, 88 Ordinary skill in the art, 101 examples, legal test, 92, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 114, 122, 123 Ownership assignments, 57 employment issues, 57 evaluation, 57 first-to-invent competition, and, 72 issues, 57 joint owner’s agreement, 53, 54 obviousness test, in, 76 patentability, and. See Patentability:ownership prohibited events, 61 P Patent claims. See Claims patent enforcement, 21 priority date, 21 Patent applications, general abandoned, 86 confidentiality exception, 64, 79 nonprovisional patent applications. See Nonprovisional patent applications nonstandard terms, use of, 102 provisional patent applications. See Provisional patent applications regular patent applications. See Nonprovisional patent applications terms. See Specification/terms Patent infringement, 26, 27 issues, loss of protection, 111, 114 marketing, and, 49 Patent-pending status, and, 129 search prior-art, reasons to, 27 Patent Pending, 21 defined, 134 Patentability. See also Obviousness absolute novelty, 63 claims, analyzing prior-art, 83 compounds and compositions, of, 122 equivalency factors, 66 experimental exception, 62 foreign patents, 63 loosing rights, 65, 71, 74, 91, 102 must have a function, 61 not novel, what if invention, 84 novelty, 66 overcoming bars, 37 ownership, and, 67 plants, of, 122 possession of the invention, 107, 121 prohibited acts. See Prohibited acts prohibition of, in "first-to-invent", 74 public policy, 62 subject matter, 58 theory of operation, incorrect, 122 Patents abstracts, 82 certificates of correction, 85 claims, 82 evaluation of, 82 invalidity causes, 54, 84 licensees, 92, 108 litigation, 82, 88, 92, 102, 108, See also Patent infringement loosing rights to attain. See Patentability/ prosecution history estoppels, 23 research. See Searching Patents terms in. See Specification/terms validity, presumption of, 102 Prior-art, 54 abandoned applications, 64 admission by applicant, 95 analogous, 81 confidentiality exceptions, USPTO, 79 dating of, 86 drawings analysis, 83 drawings and pictures, 99 general infarction, 85 international, 86 obviousness test, used in, 75 patents, evaluation of, 82 pictures, 86 published, 64 reference date, 64 references, 66, 73, 79, 85 searching for. See Searching prior-art Priority competition first-to-invent, 74 Pro se, 16, 88, 91, 92, 102, 121, See also Provisional patent applications/quality issues saving money, 100 Prohibited acts, 61 process claim exception, 61 Provisional patent applications, 21, See also Patent applications, general abandoned, referencing of, 73 abandonment, 28 access to, 29, 55 advantages, 22 after filing, issues, 129 amendment, 28 application numbers, 31 big picture, the, 92 characteristics, 22 claims, 81, 103, 112 confidentiality, 22 constructive notice, 30 conversion, 36 conversion to nonprovisional, 25 copies, 28 cover sheet, 92 deciding if appropriate, steps in, 87 differences from nonprovisional Patents, 91, 100 do-it-yourself. See Pro se filed without drawings, 32 filing of. See Filing the provisional application first-to-invent competitions, and, 73 foreign filing license, 29 format requirements, 91 incomplete filings, 31 informal, 29 language requirements, 37 missing parts late fee, 29 number, application, 128 Patent Pending. See Patent Pending Patent Pending status, marking of, 129 patent term, 28 pendency, 21 proof of filing postcard, 33 quality, 23 quality issues, 16, 17, 19, 23, 88, 92, 100 risks, 23, 24 secrecy order, 29 submissions, 126 Public disclosure examples, 63 international patent rights, 63 prior-art and, 62 Public knowledge, 63, 79 canceled matter, patents, 86 prior-art and, 62 Public use, 67 prohibition proceedings, 68 Public, dedicating invention to. See Invention:dedication to the public Publications of patent applications. See Nonprovisional patent applications/publication Q Questions to answer, guideline background section, drafting guide, 96 commercial potential, invention, 46 detailed description section, drafting guide, 108, 109, 110, 111 inventorship, determining, 56 patentable matter, determining, 60 R Reduction to practice actual, 65 constructive, 65 date of, 65 experimental data, including, 110 first-to-invent date, and the, 71, 72 last to achieve, 74 multiple inventors, and, 55 others, done by, 54 possession of the invention, and, 121 proving, 72 provisional applications, benefits of, 43 theft of invention, and, 67 Regular patent applications. See Nonprovisional patent applications Research. See Searching Patents S Searching. See Searching Patents Searching prior-art, 66, 81, See Searching for prior-art caveats, 85 embodiments, making new, 84 evaluating patents, 82 no guarantee, 84 not novel, what if invention, 84 optimization methods, 83 patents, strategies for, 82 professionals, how good are, 84 references cited, 84 search engines, 80 State-of-the-art search, 80 typical results, 84 SIR. See Statutory invention registration Small entity status, 28 Software patentable matter, and, 60 patents, 83 searching of, and, 80 Software Patent Institute, 80 Specification avoid, things to, 107, 109, 111, 116, 121 best mode, 110, See also §112 (1)/best mode claims, supporting dependent, 111 claims, supporting independent, 109, 110, 111 complete disclosure, 103 computer program listings, 120 conflicts in, 105 contradictions in, 92, 108, 109 critical elements, description of, 107 data, inclusion of experimental, 110 dependent claims, supporting, 111 derogatory remarks, 95 detail, level of, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 detrimental information, inclusion of, 108 drafting examples, 93, 98, 109, 111, 112 drafting tips, 101, 109 embodiments, 60, 77, 78, 84, 86, 88, 101, 102, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 122 enablement. See §112/enablement essential elements, 110 examples, use of, 105, 106, 107, 110, 122 experimentation, undue. See §112 (1) flowcharts, 121 genus, 103, 106, 113, 122 hyperlinks, 121 illustrations, 121 incorporation by reference. See Incorporation by reference inherent matter, 77, 103, 105, 113, 123 introduction, drafting the, 108 lexicographer, be your own, 109 make and use requirement. See §112/make and use new matter, 123 objects of the invention, 109 possession of the invention, showing, 107 prior-art, description of, 109 quality issues, 121 requirements, 100 scope of the invention, 94 spelling check, 116 style tips, drafting, 107 tables, 121 target audience, 92 terminology, 109 terms undefined in, 105 terms, nonstandard use of, 83, 85 trademarks, 120 written description requirement. See §112 (1) written description requirements, 91 Statutory invention registration defined, 136 Summaries assignments, invention, 57 drafting tip, provisional application, 116 inventorship, correction of, 35 new matter in applications, 123 provisional application characteristics, 22 provisional application practice, 28 written description requirement, 105 T Thesaurus, online, 81 Thomas Register, 80 background art section drafting style, 108 background section, drafting, 95, 96 claims drafting, 113 drawings, 96 drawings, preparation of, 97 money, to save, 94 provisional applications, drafting, 116 searching for prior-art, on, 81 specification drafting style, 107 specification,drafting, 101, 109 title, selection of, 118 Title of the invention inventor’s contribution statement, and, 53 obscuring, 93 placement of, 93 referencing of, 35 selection of, 93 tips on picking, 118 Trade secret defined, 137 trademark defined, 137 Trademarks. See Specification/trademarks U USPTO corresponding with, requirements in, 129 filing fee, provisional application, 127 forms, filing, 162 mailing address, provisional application), 125 Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR), 129 payment information, 127 phone number, customer service, 127 website, 45 Utility patent defined, 137 W Websites marketing analysis, expert, 51 MPEP online, 133 practitioners, USPTO database of, 130 searching prior-art, 80 thesaurus, 81 USPTO, 125 Written description requirement. See Specification |
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