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Why do I need to know about
Patents? ESE 111
October 22, 2014
Cynthia Dahl Practice Associate Professor and Director
Detkin IP and Technology Legal Clinic www.pennipc.com
@PennIPClinic © 2014 All Rights Reserved
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Roadmap
• Protection through IP, including Patents • Patent infringement
–How to understand if you are infringing –How to plan to avoid it
• Application to the Simulation
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Protecting IP
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Protecting IP - Patents
• New (102) • Nonobvious (103) • Patentable subject matter (101) • Not whole watch • One invention at a time • If prior art is A+B; you can patent A+B+C
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Protecting IP – Patents
• How to Focus? –Patent the cool new things? –Not necessarily
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Protecting IP – Patents
What is a patent….?
A BUSINESS TOOL
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Protecting IP – Patents
A patent allows me to…..?
EXCLUDE OTHERS
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Protecting IP - Patents
To prioritize: –Figure out “Straight of Hormuz” –Patent the “secret sauce”
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Protect Strait of Hormuz, not what is “cool”
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Patent the “Secret Sauce” = What is special about your product/business that provides special marketplace advantage?
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Identifying Inventions • Focus on the product and business and the
creation of barriers to protect product/business
• Remove barriers for your product and create barriers for competitors
• Associate Intellectual Property with products by properly drafting claims
• Remember IP exists independently of the product
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Other Reasons to Patent
• Asset for company; indicates success or wealth (good for investment)
• Bargaining tool for cross licensing • Insurance policy – if one patent is invalid,
have others • BUT – expensive proposition
– Filing and attorneys – Annuities go UP – International
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Is Patent the Answer?
• Field (coverage?) • Speed of turnover • Competitors • Money • Deeply embedded? Consumer product? • “Reverse engineerable?”
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RECAP
• Can protect “secret sauce” in Watch if meet patentability requirements
• Choose what to patent based on biz concerns and resources
• Patenting not always right, but can be powerful tool if used broadly
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Application to Simulation
• Which subsystems do you want to include in your phone?
• Did you find patent for each? • How did you search? • Crowded space? • Did you try to evaluate? Show you how….
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What does a Patent Cover?
• Parts of a patent • Description? • Most important part?
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11. A method for ordering an item using a client system, the method comprising: displaying information identifying the item and displaying an indication of a single action that is to be performed to order the identified item; and * * *
The “CLAIMS” are key…
Claims provide the metes and bounds of the right that the patent confers to exclude others from “trespassing” on the invention:
The Claimed Invention
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Do We Infringe?
• Start with Claims • How many = infringement? • “Reading on” claims • Independent versus dependent claims • What if we have a patent ourselves?
–Patentability versus “freedom to operate”
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How to “Design Around”
• Read claims carefully • Goal: Skip/Change at least one element of
every claim • Independent invention is NOT a defense • BUT knowing of a patent can lead to
willfulness
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Sometimes Claims of Infringement are Inevitable
• Crowded space • Competitive atmosphere • Searches are never perfect • Broad patents • Litigious parties take advantage of high price
tag to defend
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If Risk, What to Do?
• Change design • Pursue and wait for judgment
– Expensive damages, especially willfulness – Injunctions – Can end business – BUT – head start and can go on the offensive to
invalidate
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Final Thoughts?
• End where we start – infringement is scary proposition
• But you can and should be strategic about patents, both offensive and defensive
• Not discounting risk of infringement, but you can minimize your risk if you understand patents and how they are enforced