KEY TREATISES

• Chisum, Chisum on Patents: A Treatise on the Law of Patentability, Validity, and Infringement KF 3114 C47 1978; also on LEXIS Advance*

• Moy's Walker on patents - Current on Westlaw

• Spivak, Post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Practising Law Institute) - current on Bloomberg Law

PROCEDURAL MANUALS

• Manual of patent examining procedure (MPEP)
  Current ed. plus archive of previous editions (1949 to current)

• Manual of patent examining procedure (MPEP) - On Lexis Advance
  (2012, 2014, & 2016 eds.)

•  Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial Practice Guide
  37 CFR Part 42

STUDY AIDS

• Adelman, Patent Law in a Nutshell KF 3114 A74 2013 (Study Aids)
  Nutshell series.

• Landers, Understanding patent law  KF3114.85 .L36 2012 (Study Aids)

• Miller & Davis , Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks & Copyright in a Nutshell, 5th ed. KF 2980 M52 2012 (Study Aids)
  Nutshell series.

 

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PATENT LAW TEXTS &  TREATISES ON WESTLAW
 

• Manzo,  America Invents Act: A Guide to Patent Litigation and Patent Procedure

• Matthews, Annotated Patent Digest
  Summaries of U.S. patent law decisions (1998 to present ) & expert commentary.

• Cooper, Biotechnology & the Law

• Causes of Action

• Russell, Davis & Chernoff, Federal Circuit Patent Case Digests
  Summarizes every published patent-related decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

• Upadhye, Generic Pharmaceutical Patent & FDA Law

• Upchurch, Intellectual Property Litigation Guide: Patents & Trade Secrets

• Aisenberg & Cohen, Modern Patent Law Precedent

• Moy, Moy's Walker on Patents

•  Becker, . Fogarty, & Codd, Patent Applications Handbook

• Manzo, Patent Claim Construction in the Federal Circuit

• Manzo, Patent Claim Interpretation - Global Edition
  Explores the approaches taken by major countries around the globe on how patent claims are interpreted, ie, how to determine the scope of a patent.

• Lipscomb, Patent Claims 3rd ed.

• Skenyon,  Marchese, & Land, Patent Damages Law & Practice

• Battersby & Grimes, Patent Disputes: Litigation Forms & Analysis

•  Matthews, Patent Jury Instruction Handbook

• Mills ,et al., Patent Law Basics

• Mills, et al., Patent Law Fundamentals

• Sung & Schwartz, Patent Law Handbook

• Schlicher , Patent Law: Legal & Economic Principles

• Kramer & Brufsky, Patent Law Practice Forms

• Eisenberg &Sterne, eds., Patent Office Litigation 2nd

• Patent Official Forms

• Moga, Patent Practice & Policy in the Pacific Rim

• Rosenstock, Priority of Invention & the AIA

• Levin , Trade Dress Protection

• Goldstein, U.S. Biotechnology Patent Law

 

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