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Patent Law, Third Edition, explores and explains landmark and important recent cases as it demystifies the field. Janice M. Mueller illuminates key doctrines, judicial authorities, statutes, and policy considerations at an appropriate level for students, attorneys, or laypersons with no technical background. Suitable for use with any patent casebook, this focused, lucid, and comprehensive text features:
- clarifies the principal legal doctrines, key judicial authority, governing statutes, and policy considerations for obtaining and enforcing a U.S. patent
- a dedicated chapter that addresses central aspects of international patent law as they affect U.S. practice
- boldfaced key terms in context and a convenient Glossary
- helpful visual aids, a sample patent, and excerpts from a sample prosecution history
- Recent U.S. Supreme Court patent decisions that are fundamentally rewriting Patent Law, including:
- eBay v. MercExchange, regarding standards for injunctive relief
- KSR Int’l v. Teleflex, regarding the nonobviousness requirement of patentability
- Microsoft v. AT&T, regarding territorial scope of U.S. patents
- MedImmune v. Genentech, regarding subject matter jurisdiction for declaratory judgment actions
- Quanta v. LG Elecs, regarding patent exhaustion doctrine
- Leading new decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including the court’s en banc decisions in
- In re Seagate Tech, regarding willful infringement
- Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa, regarding design patent infringement
- In re Bilski, regarding business method patentability
