$50 Tuition Discount For Patently-O Readers
The Invention Analysis and Claiming Strategies Seminar is being offered this fall in three locations: Potomac, MD; Santa Clara, CA; and New York, NY.
Patent practitioners of every experience level will benefit from attending this two-day program which offers 13 hours of accredited CLE. Using principles never before taught in the classroom, it presents a strategic approach to analyzing inventions as well as strategies for claiming them. This seminar is not about claim mechanics. Even seasoned practitioners will experience new ways of thinking about the broad invention and its fallback features, as well as many other aspects of sophisticated patent practice.
Ron Slusky, author of the highly acclaimed book, Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer’s Guide (American Bar Association 2007) instructs participants on the principles and strategies found in his book.
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Register today. Email Ron Slusky directly with any questions and to let him know you heard about his conference on Patently-O. Patently-O readers use discount code: PO50.
— The Challenge —
If you are using the claim drafting process as the vehicle for discovering the inventive concept, you may be missing the broad invention. Learn how to apply the problem-solution paradigm in new ways to uncover the full breadth of the invention before the claims are drafted.
Your dependent claims may not be doing the job they’re intended to do. Define an effective Planned Retreat in which each successive claim gives up as little valuable IP as possible while establishing a defensible position for what’s left.
Are you proactively protecting your claims against invalidity based on indefiniteness? Explore the use of dependent “definition claims” to define potentially indefinite terminology without sacrificing the parent claim’s breadth.
You may be dismissing as obvious inventions that might be successfully argued to be nonobvious. Engage the faculty and your peers in arguing for and against the patentability of a number of everyday innovations that are right on the edge of being §103 obvious.