Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-212) and index.

Origins -- Sources of Law -- Patents Distinguished from Other Rights -- Copyrights -- Trademarks -- Trade Secrets -- Patents -- Reading a Patent -- General Information -- Drawings -- Specification -- Claims -- Patentable Subject Matter -- Abstract Ideas -- Principles of Nature -- Living Organisms -- Artistic and Literary Creations -- Printed Matter -- Methods of Doing Business -- Patent Prosecution -- Examination -- Continuations and Continuations-in-Part -- Divisional Applications -- Interferences -- Reissue -- Reexamination -- Ownership and Other Rights -- Inventorship -- Assignments -- Licenses -- Interpreting Patent Claims -- Plain Meaning -- The Specification -- The Prosecution History -- Other Claims -- Validity -- Preambles -- Special Claim Formats -- Conditions of Patentability -- Examination versus Litigation -- The Presumption of Validity -- Assignor Estoppel -- Utility -- Definiteness -- Enablement -- Best Mode -- The Written Description Requirement -- Novelty -- Section 102(b) Statutory Bars -- Other Statutory Bars ([sections] 102(c), (d)) -- Double Patenting -- Enforceability Defenses -- Inequitable Conduct -- Misuse -- Infringement -- Patent Term -- Geographic Limitations -- State of Mind -- Direct and Indirect Infringement -- Literal Infringement -- The Doctrine of Equivalents -- Equivalence in the Context of Means-Plus-Function Claims -- The Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents -- The Experimental Use Exception to Infringement -- Patent Litigation -- Jurisdiction and Venue -- Declaratory Judgment -- The Burden of Proof -- The Role of Judge and Jury -- Bifurcation -- Preliminary Injunctions -- Summary Judgment -- Remedies -- The International Trade Commission -- Judgments of Invalidity -- Special Topics -- Design Patents -- Plant Patents -- Foreign Patents -- Patenting Computer Programs -- Sample Utility Patents -- Sample Design Patents.