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Format: 28 volumes, loose-leaf, updated 5 times per year , BOOK
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    Every legal detail you need to secure and protect a patent claim Donald S. Chisum's 28-volume masterwork gives you authoritative analysis of all issues pertaining to patent law -- including doctrines, rules and case law relating to patentability, validity and infringement. Whether you're applying for a patent, appealing a patent application denial or litigating patent infringement, put authority on your side with Chisum on Patents. Chisum on Patents provides abstracts of all published decisions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a topically arranged outline.

    Chisum on Patents in the most cited treatise in patent law today -- cited more than 800 times by the U.S. federal courts and twice as much as the nearest competitor since Chisum on Patents was released in October 1978.

    One-stop research saves you time and money Chisum on Patents gives you the information you need to answer questions on every topic in patent law:

  • What constitutes a patentable invention
  • Fundamental requirements of patentability?originality, novelty, utility and nonobviousness
  • Perfecting rights to a patentable invention
  • Rules regarding disclosure and submitting claims
  • Double patenting
  • Rules in priority of invention
  • Patent application process?from filing through examination and appeals
  • Restriction requirements and divisional applications
  • Continuation applications
  • Requirements for obtaining the benefit of a prior patent filing in a foreign country
  • Applications for reissue
  • Substantive aspects of infringement

    Draft patent claims quickly and confidently Chisum on Patents saves you time with over 300 pages of guidance on how best to draft patent claims -- including a detailed explanation of patent claim interpretation. Stay up-to-date with the latest changes in patent law Updated five times a year, no other treatise on patent law keeps you as current as Chisum on Patents. It provides clarifying analysis of the most important recent decisions and how they may affect your claims.

    ?For over 25 years, I have relied on Prof. Chisum?s treatise as THE essential tool for answering every conceivable patent law question. I have been repeatedly amazed by both the range and the depth of the subject matter contained in his work. No matter how arcane the patent law question, Prof. Chisum provides the answer. Frankly, could not do my job without the benefit of his books, both the main volumes and his amazing Federal Circuit Guide.? -- Jill D. Singer, Hovey Williams, LLP

    • Part I. Treatise on the Law of Patentability, Validity and Infringement
    Glossary of Patent Terms


    Overview: Historical Development of Patent Law


    Chapter 1 Eligible Subject Matter
    Chapter 2 Originality
    Chapter 3 Novelty
    Chapter 4 Utility
    Chapter 5 Nonobviousness
    Chapter 6 Statutory Bars
    Chapter 7 Adequate Disclosure
    Chapter 8 Claims
    Chapter 9 Double Patenting
    Chapter 10 Priority
    Chapter 11 Patent and Trademark Office Procedures
    Chapter 12 Restriction
    Chapter 13 Continuation Applications
    Chapter 14 Priority by Foreign Filing
    Chapter 15 Reissue
    Chapter 16 Direct Infringement
    Chapter 17 Contributory Infringement
    Chapter 18 Interpretation and Application of Claims?Doctrine of Equivalents?Prosecution History Estoppel
    Chapter 19 Defenses
    Chapter 20 Remedies
    Chapter 21 Jurisdiction and Procedure in Patent Litigation
    Chapter 22 Ownership and Transfer
    Chapter 23 Design Patents
    Chapter 24 Plant Protection

    Index

    Part II. Appendices and Bibliography


    Appendix 1 The Patent-Copyright Clause, United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8
    Appendix 2 The Patent Act, Title 35 United States Code
    Appendix 2A The Plant Variety Protection Act
    Appendix 3 International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (The Paris Convention)
    Appendix 4 The Patent Cooperation Treaty (1986)
    Appendix 5 Regulations Under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (in force 1986, amended 1994)
    Appendix 6 [Reserved]
    Appendix 7 Patent and Trademark Office, Rule of Practice in Patent Cases
    Appendix 8 English Statute of Monopolies of 1623, 21 Jac. 1, c.3--The Original Source of the Anglo-American Patent Law
    Appendix 9 Patent Act of 1790, Ch. 7, 1 Stat. 109-112 (April 10, 1790)--The First United States Patent Statute
    Appendix 10 Patent Act of 1793, Ch. 11, 1 Stat. 318-323 (February 21, 1793)
    Appendix 11 Patent Act of 1836, Ch. 37, 5 Stat. 117-125 (July 4, 1836)--The Act Creating the Patent Office
    Appendix 12 Senate Report Accompanying Senate Bill No. 239, 24th Cong., 1st Sess. (April 28, 1836)
    Appendix 13 Patent Act of 1839, Ch. 88, 5 Stat. 353-355 (March 3, 1839)
    Appendix 14 Patent Act of 1870, Ch. 230, 16 Stat. 198-217 (July 8, 1870)
    Appendix 15 Patent Act of 1897, Ch. 391, 29 Stat. 692-694 (March 3, 1897)
    Appendix 16 Patent Act of 1903, Ch. 1019, 32 Stat. 1225-1227 (March 3, 1903)
    Appendix 17 Patent Act of 1928, Ch. 730, 45 Stat. 732 (May 24, 1928)
    Appendix 18 Patent Act of 1939, Ch. 450, 53 Stat. 1212 (August 5, 1939)
    Appendix 19 Senate Report N. 1979, 82nd Cong., 2d Sess. (1952) With Revisor?s Notes on Patent Act of 1952
    Appendix 20 House Report No. 96-1307, 96th Cong., 2d Sess. (1980)
    Appendix 21 House and Senate Reports on the Creation of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
    Appendix 22 Legislative History of the Patent Law Amendments Act of 1984
    Appendix 23 Discussion Accompanying Adoption of New Interference Rules
    Appendix 24 United States Patent and Trademark Office, Policy Statement on Patentability of Animals
    Appendix 25 Legislative History of the Process Patent Amendments Act of 1988
    Appendix 26 Patent Misuse Reform
    Appendix 27 Duty of Disclosure: Final Rules

    Bibliography

    Part III. Federal Circuit Guide
    A. Topical Outline with Abstracts
    1000 Patentability
    2000 Specification and Claims?35 U.S.C. Section 112
    3000 Prosecution?Procedures in the Patent and Trademark Office
    4000 Inequitable Conduct
    5000 Infringement
    6000 Remedies
    7000 Collateral Estoppel -- Law of the Case
    8000 Jurisdiction and Review
    9000 Ownership and Transfer of Patent Rights
    B. [Reserved]
    C. Cross Reference Table
    D. Case Table With Full Case Citations
    E. Chronological Case Table

     

    Chisum, Donald S.


    Donald Chisum was Professor of Law at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1996 and professor of law at Santa Clara University from 1997 to 2006. He received his A.B. degree in 1966 and his law degree in 1968, both from Stanford University. Mr. Chisum is the author of Chisum on Patents, a 28-volume treatise, which was first published in October 1978, and annual Patent Law Digest. He revises the treatise five times per year to account for developments in United States patent law.

    From 1997 to 2006, Mr. Chisum directed the Santa Clara Summer Institute on International and Comparative Intellectual Property, Munich, Germany. In 1989, he received the Jefferson Medal Award from the New Jersey Patent Law Association, for outstanding contribution to the constitutional goals of the patent and copyright systems. Mr. Chisum is Co-Founder of the Chisum Patent Academy, Inc., which provides high quality patent law training for junior attorneys or recent law graduates in a small group setting.

    Mr. Chisum has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration, on the subject of patents in space (1985), the Transgenic Animal Reform Act (1989) and the Biotechnology of Patent Protection Act of 1991.

     

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