Patentees have great freedom to draft claims covering their inventions in many different ways. The first challenge is to get a patent office to grant a patent on these claims and therefore provide the patentee with enforceable rights. The patentee’s challenge also involves ensuring that the resultant claims actually cover the activities undertaken by its competitors when using the invention, as well as the need to be able to prove infringement to the satisfaction of a court. In the United States, these issues can be further complicated by courts interpreting claims differently than the patent office.
Please join us as we discuss the issues surrounding the drafting of claims to obtain coverage of commercially relevant activities and parties. Topics will include:
- Appropriate use of product, method, system, process, and product-by-process claims;
- Avoiding issues of joint infringers and what is necessary when more than one party is involved in infringement;
- Issues affecting the enforceable scope of a claim, particularly in the U.S.; and
- How claim wording can affect the evidence necessary to show infringement.
Moderator:
Martin D. Hyden
Speakers:
Hazel Ford, Ph.D.
Timothy P. McAnulty
Date:
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Time:
15:00 - 16:00 GMT
16:00 - 17:00 CET
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EST
