Bloomberg BNA Publishes the 2012 Supplement to Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure

Bloomberg BNA announces the publication of the 2012 Supplement to Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure, Seventh Edition, which details significant changes in U.S. patent law resulting from recent decisions and statutory amendments by the district courts, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The treatise also explains new prosecution rules from the Patent and Trademark Office, making it a resource for analysis of patent case law as well as patent prosecution. 

The 2012 Supplement discusses changes to patent law set forth in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, including:

• Prioritized Track I examination
• The first-to-invent system
• Elimination of the best mode defense
• Revised standards for inter partes reexamination
• And others

In addition, the Supplement covers more than 40 decisions of the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, including:

• The Supreme Court's decision in i4i Limited Partnership v. Microsoft Corp. regarding patent invalidity
• The Fifth Circuit's decision in Tewari De-Ox Systems v. Mountain States regarding the existence of trade secrets
• The Federal Circuit's decision in In re Jung regarding claim construction
• The Federal Circuit's decision in Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Paddock Laboratories, Inc. regarding estoppels

The 2012 Supplement also includes a searchable CD-ROM with a comprehensive Cumulative Case Digest in HTML format, providing access to an extensive compilation of precedential language. The Case Digest is organized by specific issue, in favor of patentability. It contains excerpts from leading cases through December 31, 2011.

The author of Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure, Seventh Edition, 2012 Supplement is  Irah H. Donner, a partner in the Intellectual Property department of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York, NY. Mr. Donner concentrates in the counseling, due diligence, claim analysis, and preparation/prosecution of patents, as well as enforcement of intellectual property, with particular emphasis on financial, business method, internet, and computer software/hardware applications.