Publications
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PCT Practice And Filing A Continuation Application As An Alternative To National Stage Entry In The United States
Protecting Your Domain
Patent Law Relating To Genetic Engineering: It Really Is A Brave New World
Patent Term Adjustment Papers filed after Allowance
Pulling the Preemptive Trigger
Reissue And Reexamination Under The U.S. Patent Law
Strategies for Effective Opinion Drafting
Qualitex Further Refines Trade Dress Law
Recent Decisions Impacting Patent Litigation
Patent Damage Assessments After Rite-Hite and Grain Processing
Infringement Analysis
Instructor: U.S. IP Litigation Seminar and Patent Trial Demonstration- Seoul, Korea and Hainan, China (2006)
In re Peterson Concerning Obviousness and Overlapping Ranges
Incontestability: Now You See It Now You Don't
Intellectual Property Transactions Potentially Giving Rise to Antitrust Liability
Napster Progeny: Legislative Solution or Judicial Solution? Comments Judge WIlson's Grokster Decision
Nonobviousness - An Essential Requirement For Patentability
Likelihood of Dilution
Michael Jones Publication
The New Code Of Civil Procedure In Japan
Written Description Requirement Under 35 U.S.C. § 112 For Claims Directed To DNA Encoding Protein
Corporate America's Slow Boat to China (2006)
View Of The Parallel Imports Issue From An International Perspective
What Happens to Subject Matter disclosed but not claimed in a Patent
Provisional Applications
U.S. Patent Interference Practice
U.S. Patent Interference Practice: Part II
Some Implications Of GATT And NAFTA For U.S. Patent Practice
The Federal Trademark Dilution Act Of 1995 And The Evolution Of The Dilution Doctrine-Is It Truly A Rational Basis For The Protection Of Trademarks?
Using ADR to Resolve Intellectual Property Licensing Disputes
The Trademark Law Revision Act Of 1988
The U.S. Patent Application: An Introduction for Inventors
The Role Of Business Method Patents In Strategic Business Planning
The Role of Intellectual Property in Building Economic Strength in Developing Countries
Trade Dress Basics
Travis Ribar Publications
U.S. GATT Legislation Changes Patent Term
Trade Dress in the United States
Trademark Trial And Appeal Board Practice and Procedure
Five Important Questions Relating To The Exclusion Of References Under 35 U.S.C. § 103(c)
Avoiding Increased Damages An Overview Of Selected Decisions
Background And Summary Of The Decision Of The Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit In Re Brana Concerning Practical Utility Requirements For Pharmaceutical Inventions And New USPTO Utility Examination Guidelines
Anonymity Lost: Targeting Individual Infringers in the War against File-Sharing
Appealing a Rejection at the Patent Board of Appeals: Analysis of Recent Board Decisions and Non-Appeal Alternatives
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB SENDS PATENT APPLICANTS AND PATENT PRACTITIONERS A REMINDER ON THE IMPORTANCE OF 37 C.F.R. § 1.56
Business Method Patents A Judicial History and the Legislative Response
Biotechnology And The Federal Circuit
"Free-Space Optical Data Bus for Spacecraft," Proceedings of the NASA Earth Sciences Technology Conference 2003, M.G. Bevan, M.A.G. Darrin, S.C. Walts, W. Schneider, C.S. Mills, and R.F. Conde, June 24-26, 2003
Anand Ramakrishnan Publications
"Study of GaN Films by Pulsed Laser Photoelectron Spectroscopy," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 141, 733-736, 1998, J.L. LoPresti, S.C. Webb, R.T. Williams, W. Kim, H. Morkoc, A. E. Wickenden, and D.D. Koleske
"Experimental and Theoretical Assessment of Mechanical and Optical Effects in Non-Uniformly Heated IR Windows," Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest 23, 394-408, 2001, K.C. Baldwin, D.W. Blodgett, D.D. Duncan, M.J. Elko, R.I. Joseph, M.J. Mayr, D.T. Prendergast, D.H. Terry, M.E. Thomas, and S.C. Walts
"In Re Klopfenstein: The Federal Circuit's Unprecedented Expansion of the Definition of a Printed Publication," published to members of the IP section of the Virginia State Bar. Awarded the AIPLA Robert C. Watson Award.
"Optical Characterization of Solid Rocket Motor Plumes," Proceedings of the JANNAF 19th Safety and Environmental Protection Subcommittee Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, S.C. Walts, M.E. Thomas, D.W. Blodgett, C.A. Mitchell, and D.D. Duncan, March 18-22, 2002
"Who is OOSITA?" Patent World, July/August 2006, co-author with Meredith Martin Addy
2002 Developments in Patent Law: Federal Circuit Cases
"The European Economic Community's Proposed Directive Concerning General Product Safety, "10 Wisc. Int'l L.J., 400 (1992)
"The New Declaratory Judgment Test Through The Eyes of the Federal Circuit, and Its Impact on the Future of Licensing Negotiations"
"Congress Wants to Give the RIAA Control of Your iPod, How the Induce Act Chills Innovation and Abrogates Sony", 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 534 (2005) (comment)
"Abuse of Public Use? Exploring SmithKline v. Apotex and the Future of Public Use" The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law
Filing Provisional Applications By Foreign Inventors As A Strategy To Eliminate Certain Prior Art
Eldred v. Ashcroft: U.S. Supreme Court Decides Historic Copyright Case
Expediting Patent Prosecution by Special Treatment of Applications
Examiner's Statement of Reasons for Allowance under Rule 104(e) Potential Problems and Possible Solutions
Experimental Use
European Community Trademark Protection
Business Method Patents in the US: A Legislative Response
Dilution at the TTAB
EST Patents After Fisher: Decision Leaves Door Open for Proving Their Utility. The Patent Lawyer 2(3):18-19 (2005).
Business Method Patents in the United States: A Judicial History & Prosecution Practice
Biotechnology Process Patents Bill Concerning Patentability Of Biotechnological Processes
Effectively Rebutting a Prima Facie Case of Equivalence During Patent Examination
Doctrine of Equivalents and Dedication to the Public
Protecting Your Intellectual Property Overseas November 17, 2008
Nanopharmaceuticals: Patenting Issues and FDA Regulatory Challenges
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Operating Online
"Injunctive Relief in U.S. Patent Litigation after eBay v. MercExchange" September 2008
Best Practice in Devising a Litigation Strategy
Marking and Notice Presentation May 13, 2008
McKesson - The Ghost of New Rules Past
KSR International Co., v. Teleflex Inc. February 25, 2008
Use of Rule 132 Declaration in Traversing Rejections Following the KSR Decision February 25, 2008
Building the Brand, World Trademark Review Dec. 2007
USPTO Rules Require New Corporate Strategies
Recent Patent Decisions in the Intermediate People's Court of China September 2007
Building and Maintaining and Effective IP Portfolio
Reality Bytes: A New Era of Electronic Discovery
Application of Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Immunity to Communications with Foreign Patent Practitioners
Injunctive Relief in the ITC Post Ebay
Product-By-Process Claims Patentability And Infringement
Top Three Things To Do Under Proposed PTO Rules
RIM v. NTP Analysis by Miku Mehta (Japanese Version)
Inequitable Conduct: An overview and review of 2006 Federal Circuit Cases (Japanese Version)
How to Avoid Fraud on the Trademark Office
eBay Inc. V. MercExchante, LLC - Remedies for Patent Infringement, Permanent Injunctions & Patent Trolls
Looking at Federal Circuit Developments 2005: The Year in Review, 6 J. High Tech L. 113 (2006)
Merck BGaA v. Integra: More Answers Than Questions?
The Implications of Merck v. Integra
Small Science, Big Risk - Lessons from the past for protecting Nanotechnology
How to Challenge Patent Validity
Homology Claims Face New Equivalents Hurdles
Invited to an ITC Party? Bring Your Redesigns
Considerations for Modifying Inter-Partes Reexam and Implementing Other Post-Grant Review
To Err is Human, to Correct by Reissue Divine
PCT Practice
Patent Valuations: Bridging Matters of Finance and Law
Identifying and Antedating Prior Art in U.S. Practice
The Intersection Between Damages Recovery under the Patent Marking Statute and Prosecution Practice
To Err is Human, To Correct by Reissue Divine: Correcting By Reisuse What Could Not be Broadened by the Doctrine of Equivalents
A Fair Description
The Ins and Outs of US Trademark Litigation