WIPO Patent Drafting Manual


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The WIPO Patent Drafting Manual helps inventors and their advisors acquire the technical skills needed to prepare and file well-drafted patent applications. Covering both theory and practice, the manual takes the user through the process of preparing, drafting, filing, amending and prosecuting patent applications. The drafting of both claims and descriptions are explained in detail, with tips and illustrations.




Guidelines for Preparing Patent Landscape Reports


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These Guidelines are designed both for general users of patent information, as well as for those involved in producing Patent Landscape Reports (PLRs). They provide step-by-step instructions on how to prepare a PLR, as well as background information such as objectives, patent analytics, concepts and frameworks.







Learn from the Past, Create the Future


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"Inventions and Patents" is the first of WIPO's Learn from the past, create the future series of publications aimed at young students. This series was launched in recognition of the importance of children and young adults as the creators of our future.




Using Inventions in the Public Domain


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This guide is designed to help researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs gain access to and use technology and business information and knowledge in the public domain, for the development of new innovative products and services in their own country. The focus of the guide is on information and technology disclosed in patent documents. Designed for self-study, the guide provides easy-to follow training modules that include teaching examples and other useful practical tools and resources.




WIPO International Patent Drafting Training Program


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A comprehensive training program that improves the knowledge and skills required for successful patent applications.




Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting


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More patent applications are rejected because of claim drafting flaws than because of problems with inventions. A trusted working tool for more than two decades, Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting spotlights proven claim drafting practices and techniques that have been firmly established by patent authorities and custom. This lucid, time-saving handbook offers you: - Start-to-finish directions for each type of claim--apparatus or machine, method or process, composition of matter, article of manufacture, and biotechnology. - Extensive discussion of nonart rejections, classic and more recent constructions of means clauses, inherent function of the apparatus doctrine, mental steps and computer programs, product-by-process claims, and claims referring to drawings. - Quotations from litigated claims to help you see which types of limitations and phrases have (and have not) been "judicially approved." - Real-world examples of dependent claims, Jepson claims, generic and species claims, subcombination claims, and biotechnology. - Numerous tips on how to avoid common claim drafting mistakes. - Definitions and preferred usage of stylized words and phrases in patent law, such as "comprising," "consisting," "means for," "step for," and "whereby." - Guidance on how to review claims to eliminate errors and superfluous language. Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting examines: - Ways of avoiding transition words that can cause unnecessary claim interpretation problems. - Claim terms that are incapable of interpretation and can render claims indefinite and invalid. - Problematic alternative expressions. - Practical issues involved in amending filed claims, claiming numerical ranges and amounts, and disclosing in a specification several alternatives of elements or embodiments of the invention. Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting provides full coverage of U.S. Supreme Court and other court decisions critical to claim drafting. It is an indispensable guide for patent specialists and other intellectual property attorneys, corporate counsel, and non-specialists who represent inventors, patent officials, and inventors.




IPC Green Inventory


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This brochure explains how the IPC Green Inventory can give direct access to the latest patent information about technologies in a number of fields including alternative energy production, energy conservation, transportation, waste management, and agriculture and forestry




Exchanging Value


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A Patent System for the 21st Century


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The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates. A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.