Filing Patents Online: A Professional GuideThe average cost of an uncomplicated patent application filing is about $10,000. This high cost can leave thousands of inventors out in the cold. Filing Patents Online: A Professional Guide is a complete manual that walks inventors through each step of filing and prosecuting the patent online at a fraction of the cost. The online filing system reco |
Contents
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| 11 | |
Chapter 3 Online Patentability Search | 35 |
Chapter 4 Online Filing Basics | 81 |
Chapter 5 USPTO EFS Overview | 91 |
Chapter 6 USPTO EFS Scenarios | 121 |
PASAT | 155 |
Chapter 8 USPTO TSA | 185 |
Chapter 10 USPTO ePAVE | 239 |
Chapter 11 USPTO Direct | 285 |
Chapter 12 WIPO PCTEASY | 295 |
Chapter 13 WIPO PCTSAFE | 369 |
Chapter 14 EPO epoline | 389 |
Glossary of Common Terms | 415 |
Index | 425 |
Back cover | 435 |
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Page 11 - Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Page 16 - The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Page 11 - ... the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States, and, if the invention is a process, of the right to exclude others from using, offering for sale or selling...
Page 415 - The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Page 415 - The claim or claims must conform to the invention as set forth in the remainder of the specification and the terms and phrases used in the claims must find clear support or antecedent basis in the description so that the meaning of the terms in the claims may be ascertalnable by reference to the description.
Page 5 - This right means that, on the basis of a regular first application filed in one of the member countries, the applicant may, within a certain period of time, apply for protection in all the other member countries. These later applications will then be regarded as if they had been filed on the same day as the first application.
Page 24 - ... drawings or other descriptions of the invention that were sufficiently specific to enable a person skilled in the art to practice the invention.
Page 30 - Subject matter developed by another person, which qualifies as prior art only under subsection (f) or (g) of section 102 of this title, shall not preclude patentability under this section where the subject matter and the claimed invention were, at the time the invention was made, owned by the same person or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person.
Page 22 - It is therefore the formation in the mind of the inventor of a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention as it is thereafter to be applied in practice that constitutes an available conception within the meaning of the patent law.
Page 19 - ... the alternative only, to more than one claim previously set forth and then specify a further limitation of the subject matter claimed. A multiple dependent claim shall not serve as a basis for any other multiple dependent claim. A multiple dependent claim shall be construed to incorporate by reference all the limitations of the particular claim in relation to which it is being considered.