Patenting nanotechnology

Materials Today

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 44-48

  Bleeker, Ronald A ^a   Troilo, Louis M ^a   Ciminello, Dominic P ^a  

^a Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett and Dunner LLP   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM EFFECTS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0942267879     PISSN: 13697021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-7021(04)00083-5     Document Type: Article

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1. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, and Dunner L.L.P. or its clients.
2. While there are other methods of protecting intellectual property (e.g. trade secrets), this article focuses on protecting an inventor's ideas through patents.
3. While patents are traditionally granted by national governments, some multinational arrangements exist (e.g. Eurasia, Africa). The European Patent Convention provides for central examination and issue of patents, but enforcement depends on perfecting national rights. The proposed Community Patent, however, would be enforceable throughout the European Union.
4. Aronson v. Quick Point Pencil Co. 440 US 257. 1979;262.
5. This has also been generally true of other major patent systems, although issues have arisen with patents relating to drugs, biotechnology, and computer software.
6. Huang Z., et al. J. Nanoparticle Res. 5:(3-4):2003;333.
7. Cockburn, I. M., et al., Patent Quality. In Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Cohen, W. M., and Merrill, S. A. (eds.), National Academies Press (2003); King, J. L., Patent Examination Procedures and Patent Quality, ibid.
8. Cockburn, I. M., et al., Patent Quality. In Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Cohen, W. M., and Merrill, S. A. (eds.), National Academies Press (2003); King, J. L., Patent Examination Procedures and Patent Quality, ibid.
9. However, the US Patent Office is developing a supplemental cross-reference system for classifying nanotechnology inventions and a separate collection of nanotechnology art. See Salotto, J., Nanotechnology and Classification, USPTO Customer Conference on Nanotechnology (Sept. 11, 2003).
10. st Century Strategic Plan; Graham, S. J. H., et al., Patent Quality Control. In Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Cohen, W. M., and Merrill, S. A. (eds.), National Academies Press (2003); Levin, J., and Levin, R., Benefits and Costs of an Opposition Process, ibid.
11. st Century Strategic Plan; Graham, S. J. H., et al., Patent Quality Control. In Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Cohen, W. M., and Merrill, S. A. (eds.), National Academies Press (2003); Levin, J., and Levin, R., Benefits and Costs of an Opposition Process, ibid.
12. st Century Strategic Plan; Graham, S. J. H., et al., Patent Quality Control. In Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Cohen, W. M., and Merrill, S. A. (eds.), National Academies Press (2003); Levin, J., and Levin, R., Benefits and Costs of an Opposition Process, ibid.