Patent Law

Based on Ronald Slusky's widely praised book, the Invention Analysis and Claiming Seminar teaches a comprehensive approach to analyzing inventions and capturing them in a sophisticated set of patent claims.  Through this interactive seminar, participants will enhance their skills in a classroom setting.

The two-day seminar is first held on May 19-20, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.  Subsequent sessions throughout the year will take place in Boston, MA; Santa Clara, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC; Dallas, TX and New York, NY.

The practitioner?s first task is to identify the invention?the broad inventive concept underlying the embodiments?and only then to undertake to draft the claims. So although we will be drafting claims, this isn?t a claim-drafting course per se. The focus is on claiming strategies based on our analysis of the invention and its fallback features. Various sessions will thus look at?

• Why simply whittling down a claim may not capture the broad invention.
• The problem-solution statement as the key to discovering the breadth of the invention.
• How to draft independent claims based on the problem-solution statement and the inventive departure.
• Using the paradigm of the Planned Retreat to draft meaningful dependent claims.

Learn more and register here.