JOHN W. SCHLICHER

PATENTS, PATENT LITIGATION, PATENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND

SETTLEMENT, LICENSING, ANTITRUST, LAW AND ECONOMICS

 

 

 

John W. Schlicher, “Does Patent Law Make Sense? The Relationship between Patent Policies and Patent Statutes and Decisions,” American Bar Association, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law: Litigation and Corporate Practice (1999)

 

Introduction

 

This paper outlines the relationship between patent law and patent policy.  It discusses briefly some particular patent doctrines.  I have written a more comprehensive discussion of the patent issues in one book, and the licensing, misuse, and antitrust issues in another.

 

Table of Contents

 

 

I.    Introduction

II.   What Is Sound Legal Policy?

III.  What Is the Purpose of Patent Law?

A.       The Incentive To Invent Theory

B. The Quid Pro Quo Theory

 

IV.  Patentable Subject Matter and Section 101

V.   Utility and Section 101

VI.      Inventors and Section 102(f)

VII.     One Patent for Each Invention and Section 101

VIII.    Grant the Patent to the First Inventor and Section 102(g)

IX.      Novelty and Section 102(a)

X.   Prior Applications and Section 102(e)

XI.      Nonobviousness and Section 103

XII.     The Public Use and On Sale Bars of Section 102(b)

XIII.    The Scope of the Rights and Section 112

XIV.    Means Plus Function Claims

XV.     What Activities Constitute Infringement

XVI.   Damages

XVII.  The Inequitable Conduct Defense

XVIII. The Misuse Doctrine

XIX.   Litigation