Patent Flashcards
Analysis for patent claim
- is the patent valid?
- is there infringement?
- relief
Patentable subject matter
process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter
unpatentable subject matter (judicially created exceptions) (3)
abstract ideas, laws of nature, natural phenomena
Graham test for non-obviousness (3)
- scope and content of prior art
- differences between prior art and claims at issue
- level of ordinary skill in the art
Prior art for 1952 act & geographic limits (3)
- patented (US or foreign)
- described in printed publication (US or foreign)
- in public use or sale (US only)
prior art for AIA (3)
- patent
- printed publication
- public use/on sale
no geographic limit
secondary considerations for nonobviousness (7)
- commercial success
- long-felt need, failure by others
- awards/praise
- skepticism/teaching away
- licensing activity
- copying by others
- near simultaneous invention
Alice/Mayo framework used for patent-ineligible claims (2)
- Is it a patent ineligible idea/concept
- do the additional elements of the claim contain an inventive concept sufficient to transform the ineligible object into a patent-eligible invention?
Claim construction - markman hearing evidence
- intrinsic evidence - claims, specification, prosecution history
- extrinsic evidence - testimony of inventor/expert/patent attorney, dictionary, treatise
direct infringement definition
makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells within US or imports into US
two step framework for direct infringement
- construe claim language
- compare accused product/process to claim using every element rule
triple identity test
the infringing product must perform (1)substantially the same function (2) in substantially the same way to (3) obtain substantially the same result
ebay test for injunctions
- irreparable injury to patentee
- inadequate remedy at law
- balance of hardships favors patentee
- public interest would not be disserved by injunction
lost profits factors - panduit (4)
- demand for patented product
- absence of non-infringing substitutes (market share rule)
- manufacturing and market capability to exploit demand
- amount of profit would have made but for infringement
reasonable royalties factors - georgia pacific (3)
- value of invention to accused product
- value that factors other than claimed invention contribute to the product
- comparable licensing agreements - existing with claimed invention or similar technology