Chapter 25 Outline

• Jurisdiction: United States

Chapter 25

International Patenting Issues

§25.01 Introduction

[A] Territorial Scope of Patents

[B] Obtaining Foreign Patent Protection Prior to the Paris Convention

§25.02 The Paris Convention

[A] Introduction

[B] National Treatment

[C] Right of Priority

[D] U.S. Implementation of the Paris Right of Priority: 35 U.S.C. §119

[E] The Hilmer Rule (Pre-America Invents Act of 2011)

[F] Limitations of the Paris Convention

§25.03 The Patent Cooperation Treaty

[A] Introduction

[B] International Application Processing

[C] National Phase

§25.04 The World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

[A] Introduction

[B] Dispute Settlement Procedures

[C] Substantive Minimum Levels of Protection

[D] Limitations on Compulsory Licensing

§25.05 Patent Harmonization Issues

[A] Procedural Harmonization

[B] Substantive Harmonization

[1] First-to-File Versus First-to-Invent

[2] Prior User Rights

[3] Absolute Versus Qualified Novelty: Grace Period

§25.06 Industrial Applicability Requirement of Foreign Patent Systems

[A] Definition of Industrial Applicability

[B] Morality/Public Policy Component

§25.07 Gray Market Patented Goods

[A] Domestic Exhaustion

[B] Regional (European Community-Wide) Exhaustion

[C] International Exhaustion

[1] Generally

[2] Federal Circuit Rejection of International Exhaustion

[3] Lexmark Int'l (Fed. Cir. 2016) ( en banc)

[4] Supreme Court Adopts International Exhaustion of U.S. Patent Rights

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