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Annotated Patent Digest

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Chapter Listings

  1. General Aspects of a Patent
  2. Sources of Legal Authority
  3. General Principles & Procedures for Construing Patent Claims
  4. Using a Term’s “Ordinary” Meaning in Claim Construction
  5. Using the Specification to Construe Claims
  6. Using the Prosecution History to Construe Claims
  7. Extrinsic Evidence, Validity Considerations, and Prior Adjudications in Claim Construction
  8. Claim Construction of Means-Plus-Function Limitations
  9. General Principles of Infringement, Enforcement Period, and Standing
  10. Infringing Acts
  11. Infringement Defenses
  12. Proving Infringement & Literal Infringement
  13. Doctrine of Equivalents
  14. Prosecution History Estoppel
  15. General Principles of Validity
  16. Patent Applications
  17. Novelty — 35 U.S.C.A. § 102
  18. Obviousness
  19. Double Patenting
  20. Utility & Enablement
  21. Best Mode
  22. Written Description
  23. Sufficiency of Claiming — § 112, 2
  24. Miscellaneous Validity Requirements
  25. Post-Issuance Corrections
  26. Inventorship & Priority of Invention
  27. Inequitable Conduct & Unclean Hands
  28. Patent Misuse
  29. Design Patents
  30. Damages for Patent Infringement
  31. Willful Infringement
  32. Injunctive Relief
  33. Attorney Fees
  34. Bad-Faith Enforcement of Patent Rights
  35. Patent Assignments
  36. Jurisdiction & Venue
  37. Declaratory Judgments
  38. Preclusion by Prior Adjudications
  39. Pre-Trial Procedure
  40. Summary Judgment
  41. Discovery
  42. Privileges & Waiver
  43. Post-Trial & Appellate Procedure
  44. Evidentiary Issues

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