This three-day program features lectures each morning followed by small clinic sessions in the afternoon. Both the lecture sessions and the clinics follow the patent application process — from invention disclosure and patent preparation (Day 1), through prosecution and issuance (Day 2) and into litigation (Day 3).
The lectures are designed to provide a review of the patent preparation and prosecution process and explain:
- How to interview the inventor
- How to identify the invention
- How to decide what elements of the invention should be included in the patent
- How to prosecute an application to result in allowance of an enforceable patent
- How to interview an Examiner
- How to use reissues, reexaminations and other post-issuance proceedings
- How to anticipate patent litigation issues during the patent prosecution process