Patent Law & Policy

PATENT LAW & POLICY

Fall 2008

Prof. Joseph Scott Miller

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Syllabus

Fall 2008 Syllabus, Version 1

Patent Act

The copy the PTO publishes

Supplemental Materials

Materials will be posted over the course of the semester, in the order they appear in the Syllabus.

(a) U.S. Patent No. 5,474,831 to Nystrom (for Session #1)

(b) Excerpts from the prosecution history of the '831 patent (for Sessions #2 and #31)

(d) Nystrom v. Trex Co. (Fed. Cir. 2005) (for Session #4)

(e) Halliburton Energy v. M-I LLC (Fed. Cir. 2008) (for Session #14)

(f) General Motors v. General Electric (Fed. Cir. 2005) (for Session #24)

(g) Prior art references for the '831 patent to Nystrom (for Session #31)

. . . . . (1) U.S. Patent No. 482,536 to Zagelmeyer

. . . . . (2) U.S. Patent No. 3,287,203 to Elmendorf

. . . . . (3) U.S. Patent No. 5,059,474 to Yoshida

(h) Supplemental cases about the doctrine of equivalents (for Session #34), to be provided

(i) In re Seagate (Fed. Cir. 2007) (for Session #41)

PowerPoint slides

I revise these slides each time I teach the class. Please don't pull down a set for a given class session until shortly before that session occurs. I will post the first set of slides on or about Friday, August 15, 2008.