CS73N Meeting 07 Notes, Lawsuits, 31 Jan 2003

Entered by Gio Wiederhold, 7 Feb 2003.

Topics

Intellectual property

1. Patents

2. Copyright

3. Trade Secrets

what is best when?

Types of patents:

1. Substance: a new material

2. Device: a gadget

3. Manufacture or process: a way to make something

New areas

· Software patents

· Business patents

· Genome patents

Claims and Specification

Defending a Patent,

Challenging a patent

• prior art exists, i.e., not really novel
• enablement - insufficient to build it without undue experimentation
• inequitable conduct - not showing all that was known as prior art

Validity, infringement

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