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“Patents and the Federal Circuit is an invaluable trial tool — from motions in limine to jury instructions. Quoting from Bob Harmon’s book always gets people’s attention. I wouldn’t try a patent case without it by my side.”

— Raymond P. Niro Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, Chicago, IL

on the Seventh Edition

The most complete commentary available on the state of patent law.

In your office and in the courtroom—you can find analysis of every patent law decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in this single-volume treatise. Patents and the Federal Circuit, Ninth Edition contains the most comprehensive analysis of Federal Circuit patent cases through 2008.

This new edition covers all important Federal Circuit and Supreme Court decisions through the end of calendar year 2008.  Among other notable developments, it explores:

• The adherence—or lack of it—of the Federal Circuit to the vague standards of patentability of a combination of old elements set forth in the Supreme Court’s 2007 KSR decision
• The Federal Circuit’s stunning about-face, in its Egyptian Goddess decision, on how the question of infringement of a design patent is to be resolved
• The celebrated decision of In re Bilski, wherein the Federal Circuit abandoned much of its precedent dealing with the §101 eligibility of method claims and substituted a “machine-or-transformation” test, thus casting substantial doubt on the continued patentability of so-called “business method” inventions
• The Federal Circuit’s elaboration of the Supreme Court’s 2007 MedImmune decision, which promises to expand the availability of declaratory judgments in patent infringement litigation
• How the Supreme Court’s 2006 eBay decision has shaped the Federal Circuit’s attitude toward injunctive relief in cases of patent infringement
• And, of course, the continuing saga of the Federal Circuit’s struggles to fashion a workable protocol for claim construction—the most important issue in patent law— that will enable district court judges to get it right, as a matter of law.

This monumental reference deals with both the high-profile cases and the “uncelebrated decisions” that tend to slip under the radar and fits them into an analytical framework that reveals their true significance. Patents and the Federal Circuit addresses ever-changing issues and developments in substantive patent law, infringement litigation, and procedure. The author distills the opinions issued by the primary source of governing law on patents, giving you convenient, one-source access to controlling case law. The material is organized in a way that is intuitively familiar to patent lawyers, so they can access the information they need quickly and easily.