WIPO patent drafting manual
El Manual de redacción de patentes de la OMPI ayuda a los inventores y sus asesores a adquirir las habilidades técnicas necesarias para preparar y presentar solicitudes de patente bien redactadas. El manual, que abarca tanto la teoría como la práctica, lleva al usuario a través del proceso de prepar...
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Formato: | Libro |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Geneva, Switzerland
WIPO
2022
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Edición: | Second edition |
Colección: | WIPO publication
867E |
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- Table of contents: Foreword..... 6; Acknowledgments..... 7; Module I: Intellectual property: an introduction..... 8; 1. Intellectual property types..... 9: 2. More patent basics..... 9; Module II: Patents..... 11; 1. Detailed overview of patents..... 12; 1.1 What is a patent? 121.2 What can be the subject of a patent?..... 13; 1.3 Why are patents important?..... 16; 2. Legal requirements for patentability..... 18; 2.1 Novelty..... 18; 2.2 Inventive step/nonobviousness..... 19; 2.3 Industrial application/utility..... 21; 2.4 Patentable subject matter..... 22; 2.5 Disclosure requirement..... 23; Module III: Patent application preparation..... 27; 1. Preparing patent applications..... 28; 1.1 Obtaining invention disclosures from inventors..... 30; 1.2 Identifying patentable inventions..... 31; 1.3 Understanding the invention (core inventive concept)..... 32; 1.4 Inventorship..... 32; 2. Typical parts of the patent application...... 33; 2.1 Request..... 33; 2.2 Description..... 33; 2.3 Claims..... 33; 2.4 Drawings..... 34; 2.5 Abstract..... 34; 2.6 Application format..... 34; Module IV: Fundamentals of claim drafting..... 35; 1. Theory of the patent claim..... 36; 1.1 Overview: inventions, embodiments and claims..... 36; 1.2 Broad and narrow claims..... 37; 1.3 Patent protection and infringement: all-elements rule..... 37; 2. Patent claim format..... 38; 2.1 Parts of a claim..... 38; 2.2 Grammar of a claim and other detail..... 41; 2.3 Two-part claims or improvement claims..... 44; 2.4 Alternative elements and Markush claims..... 45; 2.5 Functional elements and means-plus- function claims..... 47; 3. Claim sets..... 48; 3.1 Independent claims..... 48; 3.2 Dependent claims..... 50; 3.3 Multiple dependent claims..... 53;3.4 Claims referring to features of another claim...... 563.5 Claim; sets based on set theory..... 57; 3.6 Schematic example of drafting a set of claims..... 60; Module V Types of claim .....66; 1. Basic 1.3 Preamble with the purposive expression “for.....” 68; 2. Specific types of claim..... 69; 2.1 Product-by-process claims..... 69; 2.2 Parameter claims..... 70; 2.3 General use claims..... 71; 2.4 Medical indication claims..... 71; 2.5 Composition claim..... 73; 2.6 Biotechnology claims..... 73; 2.7 Computer-implemented invention claims..... 74; Module VI: Patent claim design..... 76: 1. Prepare the claims firs.....t 77; 2. Broad and narrow claims..... 773. Clarity, claim word choice and inconsistencies..... 79; 3.1 Defining terms..... 79; 3.2 Distinguishing elements..... 80; 3.3 Relative terms..... 80; 3.4 Uncertainty..... 81; 3.5 “In”..... 81; 3.6 Inconsistency.... 82; 3.7 Putting this into practice..... 82; 4. Claim variations and modifications of the invention..... 83; 5. Avoidin unnecessary limitations..... 84; 6. Negative limitations and disclaimers..... 84; 7. Claims and competing products..... 85; 8. Claims must overcome prior art..... 85; 9. Using multiple claim types for thesame invention..... 85; 10. Ensuring that the description supports the claims..... 86; 11. Unity of invention..... 87; 12. Claim point of view..... 88; 13. Narrowing a patent claim during prosecution..... 91; 14. Exclusions from patentability..... 92; 15. Requirement for industrial applicability..... 93; 16. “Reading on” a patent claim..... 93; 17. Claim construction in the courts..... 93; Module VII: Drafting a description, drawings and an abstract..... 96; 1. Key audiences of patent applications..... 97; 2. Order in which to draft a patent application..... 97; 3. Drafting parts of a description..... 98; 3.1 Title of invention..... 98; 3.2 Technical field..... 98; 3.3 Background art..... 98; 3.4 Summary of invention..... 100; 3.5 Brief description of drawings..... 101; 3.6 Description of embodiments..... 101; 4. Drafting drawings..... 105; 4.1 Types of drawing..... 105, 4.2 Reference indicators..... 105; 4.3 Level of detail..... 106; 4.4 Drawings provided by the inventor..... 106; 5. Drafting an abstract..... 106; Module VIII: Filing patent applications..... 108; 1. Domestic/priority filings..... 110; 2. Foreign filings..... 110; 3. Patent office procedures and fees..... 112; 3.1 Patent office procedures..... 112; 3.2 Fees and other cost considerations..... 112; 4. Application filing procedures in specific jurisdictions..... 114; 4.1 Filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)..... 114; 4.2 Filing with the European Patent Office (EPO)..... 115; 4.3 Filing under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)..... 115; Module IX: Prosecuting patent applications..... 120; 1. Responding to office actions..... 121; 2. Drafting responses..... 122; 3. Amendments..... 123;3.1 Principle and basic requirement..... 123;3.2 Determining original disclosure andnew matter..... 123; 3.3 Broadening claims and adding claims..... 124; 4. Getting claims allowed..... 125; 4.1 Interview..... 125; 4.2 Responding to a second office action..... 125; 4.3 Final office action..... 126; 4.4 Deadlines..... 126; 4.5 Appeal..... 126; 4.6 Divisional applications, continuation applications and continuation-in-part applications..... 127; 5. Opposition proceedings..... 127; 6. Issuance of the patent..... 127; Module X: Patent strategy..... 129; 1. Offensive blocking patenting to mount attacks on competitors..... 131; 2. Defensive patenting to protect against infringement actions..... 132; 3. Design-around techniques..... 132; Module XI: Organizing, educating and motivating the technical team..... 134; 1. Training management personnel and marketing personnel tobunderstand the significance of patents and portfolio building..... 135; 2. Training scientists/technologists to understand what might be patentable and who might be a co-inventor, and to prepare invention disclosures..... 137; 3. Setting up an in-house patent review committee to periodically review invention disclosures and make patenting recommendations..... 138; 4. Inventor incentive programs to encourage inventors to invent and report..... 138; 5. Professional ethics..... 139; Annexes: ..... 142; Annex A Examples of databases..... 143; Annex B Example of an invention disclosure form..... 144; Annex C WIPO resources and tools..... 147; Endnotes..... 148.