Committee Serial No. 21. Considers legislation to protect patent rights against contributory infringement and to establish a criterion for determining inventions eligible for patents.

Committee Serial No. 21. Considers legislation to protect patent rights against contributory infringement and to establish a criterion for determining inventions eligible for patents.

Committee Serial No. 21. Considers legislation to protect patent rights against contributory infringement and to establish a criterion for determining inventions eligible for patents.

This Guide aims to assist users in searching for technology information using patent documents, a rich source of technical, legal and business information presented in a generally standardized format and often not reproduced anywhere else. Though the Guide focuses on patent information, many of the search techniques described here can also be applied in searching other non-patent sources of technology information.

Dr. Holzmann introduces the manager and technologist as well as the student and the foreign patent practitioner to the United States Law of Patent Infringement. Dr. Holzmann directly addresses what to do when a patent is being infringed. The author explains and interprets the intricacies of the patent law and provides a strong basis of understanding future changes in patent law. This valuable volume should appeal to academics and students of law, attorneys specializing in corporate law, patent attorneys, CEOs in technical firms, and CEOs of foreign corporations.

The book is a timely and detailed analysis of the acts constituting patent infringement in the laws of European Community states and associated countries. The provisions on the question have recently been re-drawn in a standardised form which derives from the Community Patent Convention (itself an established text which is not yet operational). These provisions on patent infringement need to be similarly interpreted in the different jurisdictions if any real harmonisation of laws is to be attained. This book shows the evolution and logical structure of the provisions, making apposite comparisons not only with the formner laws of the countries concerned but also with the US, Australia, Canada and elsewhere. It will be of major assistance in understanding a crucial aspect of patent law throughout Europe.