Patent Practice Forms
by Peter S. Canelias
List Price: $175.00
Published 8/28/2001
ISBN: 073552727X
Now you can find the most commonly-used forms in patent
work quickly and easily in Patent Practice Forms, the single-volume guide that
gives you a time-saving head start to any drafting assignment relating to patent
prosecution, litigation and opinion work.
Canelias includes more
than 240 frequently- used forms. These practice-tested sample documents are
grouped and numbered according to the major areas of patent work: patent
applications, patent prosecution, appeals and reissues, pleadings, discovery,
motion practice, trials, remedies and opinions. Not only does Patent Practice
Forms give you model documents that save time and effort, it helps you identify
special considerations that must be addressed when dealing with: Design Patents
in conjunction with trademark and trade dress issues:
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Discovery Forms including document requests and interrogatories
which highlight the relevant areas for inquiry in a patent case
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Motion forms addressing bifurcation of trial, antitrust (Walker Process
claims), motions in limine to preclude expert testimony, and Markman claim
construction
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Trials and Jury Instructions and the need for "particularized testimony
and linking arguments"
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Petitions and Affidavits including affidavits in support of one or more of
the accepted "secondary considerations" indicating non-obviousness, and
petitions for filing a patent application by assignee, rather than the actual
inventor
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Protective Orders to prevent unauthorized disclosure of confidential
information, and relating to the timing of designation of information as
confidential
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Opinions of patentability of an invention, infringement and validity of an
issued patent by a product, a "right to use" opinion, and opinions
specifically directed to design patents and their special test for validity
and infringement
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Appeals from the PTO, including a form of appeal brief to the Board of
Patent Appeals and Interferences from a final rejection of applicant's claims
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Orders to Show Cause used in motions for injuctive relief or to stay a
judgment pending appeal.
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