Patent Law Fundamentals

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This class focuses on the law relating to the procurement and enforcement of patent rights. The course begins with an examination of the statutory basis for patents and how that relates to the "patentability requirements." The patentability requirements are also discussed in the context of patent litigation, where a failure to meet the requirements can provide a defendant a way to invalidate a patent that is asserted against it. In this course you will gain a broad overview of the patent laws as interpreted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and applied by the various federal courts (primarily the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) that have exclusive jurisdiction to hear patent matters.