A Guide for Implementing a Patent Strategy
- Appendix 1. Electrophotography: Building a Patent Portfolio in a Mature but Evolving Field
- The Mindsets of Innovators and Attorneys and other Cautionary Notes
- The Structure of a Patent
- Identifying Patentable Inventions
- Conducting Prior Art Searches
- Identifying What Has Yet to Be Invented
- Preface
- The Next Step: Prosecution of Your Patent Application
- Proposing and Writing Claims
- What Next?
- Prioritizing the Inventions
- Reviewing Your Proposed Patent Applications
- Prioritizing Your Patent Applications
- Acknowledgements
- Writing Your Patent Applications
- The Path to Obtaining Patents
- Final Thoughts
- Background for Developing and Implementing a Patent Strategy