Patent attorneys

While the principal value of the book is for the professional chemist or student of chemistry, it should also be of value to many people not especially educated as chemists. Workers in the natural sciences—physicists, mineralogists, biologists, pharmacists, engineers, patent attorneys, and librarians—are often called upon to solve problems dealing with the properties of chemical products or materials of construction. Eor such needs this compilation supplies helpful information and will serve not only as an economical substitute for the costly accumulation of a large library of monographs on specialized subjects, but also as a means of conserving the time required to search for... 

The front covet of the patent generally also identifies the U.S. Patent Examiner who reviewed and allowed the patent appHcation, as weU as the patent attorney, agent, or firm who worked with the Patent Examiner on the appHcation, H. 

Full-Text Patent Databases. The LEXPAT database on the LEXIS— NEXIS system, the first commercially available full-text patent file, receives its greatest use from patent attorneys and has been relatively unused by other patent information speciaUsts. This may be attributed to search software that is quite different from the type familiar to information speciaUsts, no matter what their preferred host system. This situation has changed with dialog s release of the PATEULL files followed by STN s USPATEULL, both searchable by familiar Boolean techniques and featuring greater... 

Patent, n. patent (in the proper sense cf. Ge-brauchsmuster). -amt, n. patent office, -an-meldimg, f. application for a patent, -an-spruchi m. patent claim, -anwalt, m. patent attorney, -beschreibung,/. patent description or specification, -blatt, n. patent gazette. -dauer, /. life of a patent, -ein-spruch, m. patent interference, patentfahig, a. patentable. 

Special care must be taken with notes regarding development work that could lead to a future patent. A patent attorney should be contacted about such matters and his recommendations followed to the letter. In general, all details must be recorded, including experiments that did not work out. There are many cases where exciting developments have come as a result of something... 

None of the biogenesis hypotheses previously discussed differs so clearly from all the other models as the chemoautotrophic theory proposed by the Munich patent attorney Dr. Gunter Wachtershauser. 

A chemical patent attorney could take a position with a medium- or large-sized firm and become involved in patent litigation. In this phase of the profession, the lawyer is required to match wits with an opponent in what is really an adversary contest. For those who find satisfaction in intellectual competition, this can be an exciting career avenue. 

The Patent Bar was opposed to the bill unless it was revised extensively. The opposition was not selfishly motivated since the bill would create a great demand for new patent attorneys and eliminate unemployment among those in practice. 

In the original 1992 chapter a number of patenting problems were identified from the point of view of an applied biological scientist involved in the commercialisation of biotechnological products and processes (see Table 12.4). This chapter also includes views from a European Patent Attorney specialising in patenting biotechnological... 

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the importance and practical procedures of patenting in biotechnology. Special attention is drawn to the patentability requirements under the European and U.S. patent law. Practical guidelines are given to researchers aiming to protect their inventions by patents. This chapter should not, however, be used as a substitute for the advice of a lawyer or patent attorney taking into consideration the reader s specific circumstances. 

Kenneth R. Shoulders, one of the most astute experimental scientists known to this author, was the person who has discovered and reported extensively on high-density charge clusters [2], His book was written in 1987, prior to the time that the first patent applications were being filed with the U.S. Office of Patents and Trademarks. An intelligent patent attorney suggested that this technology might... 

The patent attorney drops off the patent application with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) using Express Mail to Addressee Service and includes a stamped, self-addressed return postcard to make sure that the patent office gets the application (not that he doesn t trust the USPS). He deposited the provisional patent application at the post office on January 13, 2005, and later received the postcard confirming that the USPTO had received the provisional application. He dutifully placed the... 

Do we have any data to support that assertion the patent attorney asked somewhat skeptically.36... 

The patent attorney executed assignments of the invention from the chemist and his boss as well as signed declarations that they were in fact the inventors of the claimed subject material. In a procedure much tike before, the patent attorney went to the post office and used Express Mail to send the patent application and a stamped self-addressed postcard the date the application was mailed was January 11, 2006. 

Approximately 3 months later, the first office action arrived. Seeing the envelope from the USPTO, the patent attorney exclaimed, Man, I hope that s the patent ... 

Within 3 months (shockingly quick for the USPTO, they apparently have their own metrics), the patent attorney received office actions for all three of the cases on the exact same day (now there is a strange coincidence). 

After cajoling his reluctant administrative assistant into holding the office actions up for him, the patent attorney closed his eyes and selected one. Gleefully opening it and then reading it, his face slowly lit up with a big, beaming smile. The benzothiophene patent has been allowed ... 

By this time, some of the other workers in the office had started to migrate over to see what was going on, many of them with worried or puzzled looks on their faces. The patent attorney, aware now that he had begun to attract an admiring crowd decided in his sudden magnanimity to allow his faithful administrative assistant to open the last one. 

No really, it s your turn... I ve already got to open two, now it s up to you to make the hat trick, the patent attorney generously offered. Quickly opening the letter, hoping to get this little ceremony over as quick as possible, the administrative assistant began to read the letter when his expectant boss, the patent attorney snatched it out of his hands saying,... 

Claim 1 is pending in this application, claim 1 is... rejected, the let down was huge. Embarrassed to still be in front of the now disbanding crowd, the patent attorney turned to his assistant and said I knew I shouldn t have let you open that one, you jinxed it. Noticing that the attorney was not really smiling when he said this, the... 

Not credible, not credible Didn t he see the name of our company—maybe I should call him up and have a little interview just to let him know that he shouldn t be misunderestimating us, the patent attorney mumbled to himself. 

Upon arrival the next morning, the patent attorney drafted his amended claim and filed his response on September 1,2006. The amended claim is shown in Figure 2.11. 

Approximately 4 months after sending in the amended claim, the patent attorney received the letter from the USPTO. He opened the letter and read that his amended claim would be allowed as is. It is surprising that the attorney did not seem at all excited or even very happy about the fact that the claim was now allowed. 

His administrative assistant, somewhat puzzled by the patent attorney s noticeable lack of excitement with this seemingly good news wandered over to the attorney s office and peeked his head in saying, Why so glum I noticed you got the case allowed. ... 

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