Patent It Yourself - PDF Archive

INDex | 595
digital, for use in CAD, 264,
268–269
filed with PTO, 257, 259
for marketing, 313, 316
in notebook, 53
picture-taking technique, 268–269
scanning of, 264, 268
as sketching aids, 191
tracing of, 264, 266, 267
of working model, 309
Pictures. See Drawings; Photos
Piecemeal prosecution, 349–350
Planning, decision chart for, 170–178
Plant, utility patent for, 10, 94
Plant patent, 10, 30
application for, 300
legal requirements for, 94
numbering system for, 136
PTO fees for, 14
summary, 31–32
term of, 13
See also Patent
Plant Variety Protection Act, 10, 30, 94
Plasmids, 187–188
Plastic products, marketing of, 310
“Plurality of,” 242, 243, 359
Positive and negative factors test,
82–87, 313
Postcard, return receipt, 256
with amendment, 387
with continuation application, 403
with design patent application, 298,
300
with Information Disclosure
Statement, 288
with Issue Fee Transmittal, 390
with maintenance fee, 420
Petition to Make Special and, 297
with Provisional Patent Application,
59, 61, 74, 75, 76
with regular patent application, 276,
281, 284, 338
when returned, 338
Post Office Patent, 77
Power-One v. Artesyn Tech, 240
PPA. See Provisional Patent Application
(PPA)
Preamble of claim, 227, 240, 241, 242,
245
in Jepson claim, 243
longer, in amendment, 363
Preamble of design patent application,
294, 298
Pre-Appeal Brief Request for Review,
350, 392
Preferred embodiment, 180
Preliminary Amendment, 348
in divisional application, 405
Premium marketing route, 316–317
Presentation to manufacturer, 312–313
Press release, 413
Prima facie obviousness, 110, 383
Prima facie unpatentability, 288
Primes
in figure numbers, 191
in reference numbers, 200, 262
Printed matter
patentability of, 98
as prior art, 104
See also Copyright; Publication
Prior art, 102–106
age of, 357
antedating a reference, 46–47, 57
breaking a patent and, 428
cited against patent, 429–430
cited against patent application,
429–430
by examiner, 340, 342, 347, 348,
349, 353, 354, 356, 357–365
by public, 396
claims and, 151, 152, 153, 155, 225,
226, 233–234, 240, 242, 250
dependent, 245
closest known, in notebook, 53
combination of references as,
113–116, 382, 383–384
continuation application and, 393
defensive publication and, 175
defined, 102
discovered after filing, 342
discussed in specification, 180, 181,
198, 209, 210–212
important tip for, 201
doctrine of equivalents and, 423
drawings in, 184
drawings of, in your patent
application, 191, 193, 198
duty to inform PTO of, 182, 275,
287, 342, 345, 429
effective date of, 358
PPA and, 104
failure to disclose, 14, 288
field of invention and, 181
foreign filing and, 321, 326
formatted as table, 198, 210
infringement suit and, 288, 432
never make admissions about, 345,
379–380
novelty and, 95
online, 104
orderly file of, 282
patent as. See Patent, as prior art
problems with, already known, 180,
198
Provisional Patent Application and,
47, 57, 59
publication of application and, 396
published patent application as, 198,
210
reexamination based on, 430, 431
relevance to patentability, 287–288
review of, for preparing application,
183–184, 185
on software inventions, 159
Statutory Invention Registration as,
408–409
summary, 106
unobviousness and, 107–108, 108,
113–116
See also Information Disclosure
Statement (IDS); Novelty; Patent
search
Priority date, foreign filing and, 321,
330
Priority of inventorship, 48
in foreign patent law, 326, 395
interference and, 46, 394
Provisional Patent Application and,
57
Prior user’s rights, 28, 176
Private PAIR, 278, 284, 340, 342, 349,
357
Problem solving
by inventing, 35–37
marketing success and, 85
unobviousness and, 112
Process claims. See Method (process)
claims
Processes, manufacturing
as trade secrets, 26
unusual, detailing in application,
187
See also Production of invention