Legal Language
Legal Language

Author: Peter M. Tiersma

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780226803036

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This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.

Patent Interference Practice Handbook
Patent Interference Practice Handbook

Author: Jerome Rosenstock

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 5514

ISBN-13: 0735501149

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One procedural misstep in patent interference practice can put an invention at risk. Patent Interference Practice Handbook is the only book that leads you step by step through proper procedure at every stage of the interference process, before and after declaration. Covering practice before the U.S. Patent Office, the District Courts and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, this intensely practical guide shows you exactly how to: Assess elements such as anticipation, use or sale, obviousness, abandonment, suppression, concealmentEstablish patentabilityDetermine priorityMeet reduction-to-practice standardsMeet all burden of proof requirementsAvoid export license violationsFile preliminary statements and motionsBring civil actions or appeals after interference.At every stage of his p