Curriculum Guide · Courses

Professors Mark Feldstein and Anthony Tridico

J.D. Seminar 387 | 2 credit hours

This skills and writing course will focus on the practical and strategic aspects of patent preparation and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the effects of prosecution decisions on patent enforceability. Claim drafting and responding to Office Actions with an eye towards enforcement will be a primary focus, and both will be addressed with short practical writing assignments. Coverage of the appeal process will include preparing a final written Appeal Brief (in compliance with 37 CFR § 41.37) and making oral arguments before a mock panel of Administrative Law Judges. Among other topics, the strategic use of the post issuance reissue and reexamination procedures, especially in anticipation of litigation, will also be addressed.

Prerequisite: Patent Law.