Appendix B: Sample Utility Patent

April 11, 2018 by James Yang

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Introduction
- Disclaimer
- What you will find in this course
- How to use this course
To Patent or Not To Patent (Section 1)
- Purpose of the patent system
- Benefits to the patent owner
- Overview of the Seven Core Concepts
Getting Started: Seven Core Patent Concepts
- Core Concept 1: Defining the Invention (Chapter 1)
- Core Concept 2: Ownership–Resolving Ownership Issues (Chapter 2)
- Core Concept 3: Conducting a Novelty Search (Chapter 3)
- Core Concept 4: Different Ways to Protect an Idea (Chapter 4)
- Core Concept 5: Three Bars to Patentability and the First-Inventor-to-File Regime (Chapter 5)
- Core Concept 6: Preserving Foreign Patent Protection (Chapter 6)
- Core Concept 7: The Overall Patent Process and Costs (Chapter 7)
Utility and Design Patent Applications (Section 2)
- How to use this section on patent applications
- Deciding what application to file: Design or utility?
- Design Applications (Chapter 8)
- Cost Considerations for Provisional and Nonprovisional Utility Patent Applications (Chapter 9)
- Overarching Principles of a Utility Patent Application (Chapter 10)
- Parts of a Utility Patent Application (Chapter 11)
- Claims section
- Writing Tip #1: How to write an application with the broadest possible protection (without breaking the bank) (Chapter 12)
- Writing Tip #2: Be explicit. Don’t rely on inferences made in the patent application
- Writing Tip #3: Using the word “may” versus “is”
- Writing Tip #4: Preferred embodiments and using the word “substantial”
- Writing Tip #5: Do not use the word, “invention”
- Writing Tip #6: Suboptimal embodiments
- Writing Tip #7: Ranges
- Writing Tip #8: Software Inventions
Patent Examination FAQs (Section 3)
- FAQ #1: Patent Process Timing
- FAQs #2-3: Patent Costs
- FAQ #4: Duty to search v. Duty to disclose
- FAQ #5: Review of Formalities
- FAQs #6-7: Secrecy
- FAQs #8-9: Nonpublication request and foreign patent protection
- FAQs #10-16: Restriction Requirement
- FAQs #17-21: Responding to Office Action rejections
- FAQs #22-29: Broadening patent protection
Appendices
- Appendix A: Trademark
- Appendix B: Sample Utility Patent
- Appendix C: Sample Design Patent
- Appendix D: Sample Trademark Registration
- Appendix E: Entity Size
- Appendix F: Patent Laws

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