How to Write a Patent Application [Hardcover]

Jeffrey G. Sheldon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0872240444 | ISBN-13: 978-0872240445 | Publication Date: December 1, 1992

PLI s How to Write a Patent Application takes the guesswork and risk out of preparing patent applications by taking you step by step through the entire process. How to Write a Patent Application explains, analyzes, and illustrates all the essential principles and techniques of drafting solid patent applications. You ll learn how to obtain the information you need from inventors; prepare information disclosure statements; claim inventions so that the elements that render them nonobvious are clearly set forth in the claims; write patent applications that survive litigation and licensing negotiations; and prepare U.S. applications for foreign filings. How to Write a Patent Application saves you hours of time while helping to ensure you consistently produce foolproof documents, thanks to a bounty of invaluable aids, including sample forms that provide helpful, time-saving models; checklists that ensure you cover all the drafting elements; and statutory and regulatory materials that put key documents at your fingertips. Updated at least once a year, How to Write a Patent Application is a crucial, hands-on resource for patent lawyers and for other intellectual property attorneys and a useful basic reference for general practitioners.

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"Highly recommended." -- National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations Newsletter

Highly recommended --National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations Newsletter

About the Author

Jeffrey G. Sheldon is an attorney at Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson in Pasadena, CA.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1310 pages
• Publisher: Practising Law Institute (PLI) (December 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872240444
• ISBN-13: 978-0872240445
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 3.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,273,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original and very outstanding, May 9, 2008

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climbingbum "climbingbum" (Arlington Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Write a Patent Application (Hardcover)

This is an outstanding book that fills a nice spot for those people who want to go beyond David Pressmans also nice book "Patent It Yourself".
This book essentially laid the groundwork for me, and I have personally reccomended it over the years to many other people I know who are just starting their careers, and they have all found it a very excellent and useful book as well. One possible way to learn patent drafting on your own is to start with Pressmans book, move up to this book, and then round out your edcuation with Landis on Patent Claim Drafting. When I was a patent examiner, I used to like helping pro-se inventors doing their own applications, often rather uninformedly, by recommending the above progression of books to read. As I said before, this book is a real wonder, and, for independent inventors, given the amount of money you might have to otherwise pay an agent or attorney to draft your application, it is well worth purchasing. And even if you do have an agent or attorney prosecute your first application, it is a good book to follow the process along with, and then hopefully in the near future, you will be writing them yourself. And if you want to be a patent agent or attorney doing prosecution, this book, Landis, the MPEP, and a dictionary are the only books you need on your shelf. (By the way, I have never met or talked to Mr. Sheldon, I just appreciate it when people fill a void with a very nice book)

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Write a Patent Application, May 18, 2002

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Stanley H. Kremen (East Brunswick, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Write a Patent Application (Hardcover)

This book is intended for beginning and serious patent practitioners as a handbook for patent application draftsmanship. It is contrasted with books such as "Patent It Yourself" by David Pressman in that the latter appears to be directed toward novice pro se applicants. Much information contained in "How to Write a Patent Application," by Jeffrey Sheldon, may be used as study material for the registration examination for patent attorneys and agents (i.e., the patent bar examination). I found it to be an excellent companion to the "Manual of Patent Examining Procedure" (MPEP) which is published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent guide, March 13, 2008

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Bishal Nepal (Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Write a Patent Application (Hardcover)

This is an excellent guide for somebody who wants to learn about drafting patent specification. This book is for patent professionals, unlike "Patent It Youself" by David Pressman. However, for a patent agent, there are other books that I recommend to follow after reading this book, the books including "Landis on Mechanics of Claim Drafting," "Patent Prosecution --Irah H. Donner," "Software Patents--Gregory A. Stobbs," and in last the online MPEP from USPTO web-site.

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