Patent Law and Practice

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Description
It is usual to have acknowledgements that express an author's thanks to people who made possible to put the book together. I, too, have such people to acknowledge. But my first thanks to those who were deserving of acknowledgment long before this book was even a gleam in my eyes: my late parents and my teachers and Gurus, whether in school, college, or at places I have been lucky to have studied and worked both in United States and India. I am also indebted to patent agents and attorneys I have been privileged to coach over online coaching sessions for preparing for the Indian patent agent exam. I owe them a lot for having been the willing guinea pigs for my initial efforts in learning to present the basic ideas about patent drafting that I had internalised. This book was initially intended as a guide to prepare for the Indian patent agent exam, but as I was going through the various sections of the Act, I realised that the book should refer to corresponding provisions of other jurisdictions and how they treated basic concepts of industrial applicability, novelty and obviousness. In this way, writing this book became a learning experience for me as well.
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Contents
Part 1
Chapter 101 Issues Involved: Secrecy, Accessibility, National Security and Foreign Filing Licenses
Chapter 201 Provisional & Complete Specifications
Chapter 301 Priority
Chapter 401 Industrial Applicability
Chapter 501 Novelty/Anticipation
Chapter 601 Inventive Step/Non-Obviousness
Part 2
Chapter 1 Preliminary
Chapter 2 Inventions Not Patentable
Chapter 3 Applications for Patents
Chapter 4 Publication and Examination of Applications
Chapter 5 Opposition Proceedings
Chapter 6 Anticipation
Chapter 7 Secrecy of Inventions
Chapter 8 Grant of Patents and Rights Conferred
Chapter 9 Patents of Addition
Chapter 10 Amendment of Applications and Specifications
Chapter 11 Restoration of Lapsed Patents
Chapter 12 Surrender and Revocation of Patents
Chapter 13 Register of Patents
Chapter 14 Patent office and its Establishment
Chapter 15 Powers of Controller Generally
Chapter 16 Working of Patents, Compulsory Licences and Revocation
Chapter 17 Use of Inventions for Purposes of Government and Acquisition of Inventions by
                     Central Government
Chapter 18 Suits Concerning Infringement of Patents
Chapter 19 Appeals
Chapter 20 Penalties
Chapter 21 Patent Agents
Chapter 22 International Arrangements
Chapter 23 Miscellaneous
Part 3
Reference - Judgments
Case-1 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd v UUSI, LLC D/B/A Nartron
Case-2 Polygroup Limited MCO v Willis Electric Co., Ltd.
Case-3 Sandoz Inc. v Pharmacyclics LLC
Case-4 Precision Planting, LLC and AGCO Corp. v Deere & Company
Case-5 TCL Corporation, TCL Communication Technology Holdings, Ltd., TCT Mobile Limited,
             TCT Mobile Inc., and TCT Mobile (US), Inc. v Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Case-6 TCL Corporation, TCL Communication Technology Holdings, Ltd., TCT Mobile Limited,
             TCT Mobile Inc., and TCT Mobile (US), Inc. v Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Case-7 Broadcom Corporation v WI-FI One, LLC
Case-8 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. v M & K Holdings Inc.
Case-9 M&K Holdings, Inc. v Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Case-10 Ericsson Inc. v Apple Inc.
Part 4
Chapter 1 The Patents Act, 1970
Chapter 2 The Patents Rules, 2003
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Author Details
Rajiv Kumar Choudhary