About the Course:

This session provides a very thorough overview of the patent drafting and patent prosecution processes from the point of view of engineers and scientists. The speaker--a world-class electrical engineer-- discusses many real life questions that were posed to him by engineers and scientists. Among the examples presented during this webinar are independent claims as well as examiner rejections for lack of novelty, obviousness, lack of clarity and non-statutory subject matter.

If you don't know the answers to questions such as these, you really should listen to this webinar:

• What is patentable? What is not patentable?
• What are the two means of reducing inventions to practice?
• What is required to file a provisional patent application? What is required to file a non-provisional patent application?
• How can inventors identify and avoid the primary examiner rejection criteria?
• What are the four statutory classes of patent claims? How can you differentiate claims according to their statutory classes?
• Which part of a patent must satisfy the enabling requirement?
• What is included in a patent's specifications?
• How can you distinguish independent claims from dependent claims?
• What is the impact of restriction requirements?
• Which parts of patents can prove to be prior art for other patents?
• If one must pay to read documents can they be considered prior art?
• Is it common for most or all claims to be rejected during the first office action?
• Must patent applicants respond to all office actions?
• What is the significance of defensive publication?

Course Leader: Professor Menachem Nathan, CEO, Nathan & Associates Patent Agents Ltd.

Professor Menachem Nathan is a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel and a USPTO registered patent agent heading his own IP boutique firm, Nathan & Associates Patent Agents Ltd., www.natpatent.com in Tel Aviv. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, respectively) from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and his PhD in Materials Science from Cornell University. He was Chairman of the Department of Physical Electronics in the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, a Senior Scientist at Martin Marietta (now Martin Lockheed) Corporation's central research laboratories in Baltimore, MD, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the IBM Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights, NY.

Prior to founding Nathan & Associates, he spent 10 years (five as Partner) at a major Patent Attorneys firm in Tel Aviv, Israel. He has drafted and prosecuted more than 250 patent applications. His research activities were funded by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the US Office of Naval Research, the Israel Science Foundation, the Israel Ministries of Science and Industry and other funding bodies and resulted in some 100 scientific publications and 30 US and foreign patents.

Course Length: Approx. 2.0 hours

$345.00 PER USER

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