Fun IP Prof. Roger Ford Class 5 — February 3, 2015 Patents: Introduction, disclosure requirements, & the patent bargain (post-AIA) 35 U.S.C. § 101 — Inventions patentable 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.
Sildenafil citrate Claim 1 of U.S. patent no. 5,250,534
(post-AIA) 35 U.S.C. § 112 — Specification (a) In General.— 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 or joint inventor of carrying out the invention. (b) Conclusion.— The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention. * * * 35 U.S.C. § 132 — Notice of rejection; reexamination (Post-AIA) (a) Whenever, on examination, any claim for a patent is rejected, or any objection or requirement made, the Director shall notify the applicant thereof, stating the reasons for such rejection, or objection or requirement, together with such information and references as may be useful in judging of the propriety of continuing the prosecution of his application; and if after receiving such notice, the applicant persists in his claim for a patent, with or without amendment, the application shall be reexamined. No amendment shall introduce new matter into the disclosure of the invention. * * *
35 U.S.C. § 120 — Benefit of Earlier Filing Date in the United States (Post-AIA) An application for patent for an invention disclosed in the manner provided by section 112 (a) (other than the requirement to disclose the best mode) in an application previously filed in the United States, * * * which names an inventor or joint inventor in the previously filed application shall have the same effect , as to such invention, as though filed on the date of the prior application , if filed before the patenting or abandonment of or termination of proceedings on the first application or on an application similarly entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the first application and if it contains or is amended to contain a specific reference to the earlier filed application. * * * U.S. Patent No. 6,185,590 → Filing date: Oct. 15, 1997 → “Process and architecture for use on stand-alone machine and in distributed computer architecture for client server and/ or intranet and/or internet operating environments”
U.S. Patent No. 6,185,590 → Filing date: Oct. 15, 1997 → “Process and architecture for use on stand-alone machine and in distributed computer architecture for client server and/ or intranet and/or internet operating environments” U.S. Patent No. 6,185,590 → Filing date: Oct. 15, 1997 → “Process and architecture for use on stand-alone machine and in distributed computer architecture for client server and/ or intranet and/or internet operating environments”
U.S. Patent No. 6,771,381 → Filing date: Nov. 12, 1999 → “Distributed computer architecture and process for virtual copying” U.S. Patent No. 7,477,410 → Filing date: June 24, 2004 → “Distributed computer architecture and process for virtual copying”
U.S. Patent No. 7,986,426 → Filing date: Dec. 4, 2008 → “Distributed computer architecture and process for document management” U.S. Patent No. 7,986,426 → Filing date: Dec. 4, 2008 → “Distributed computer architecture and process for document management”
U.S. Patent No. 7,986,426 → Filing date: Dec. 4, 2008 → “Distributed computer architecture and process for document management”
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