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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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #605903 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-25
• Released on: 1992-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1310 pages

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

"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.

Customer Reviews

How to Write a Patent Application
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.

Original and very outstanding
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)

More information from the author
Although the book was originally written in 1992, it is updated yearly to accomodate changes in the law.