4. Rule of law -- a concise summary of the main precedent established. Support with quotes form the book

The main thing that I established in my opinion is how to protect myself in the future working field. There are a lot of things to consider when you are hired to a new company. One thing in particular is prevention assignments pg 111 “some employments agreements have a provision requiring the employee to assign any inventions to the employer.” You have to be extremely careful of what you are signing away your rights to. When dealing with legal issues surrounding your patent you want to have presumption of validity pg 74“In an infringement suit brought by a patent owner against an alleged infringer, it is legally presumed that the patent owners patent is valid”. There are some circumstances where you can catch a break when dealing with patents such as a reconsideration request “ A patent application may request that the patent examiner reconsider an application whose claims were rejected in the final office.” So much is put into the consideration of a patent. One thing that is done is the preliminary look at prior art pg 123“this preliminary investigation by inventors consist of checking stores, catalogs, reference books, product directories, and similar sources to discover whether a proposed invention already exists.” With all of this information it seems like it’s a lot to take in but what I’ve learned is that actually all of these rules play hand in hand with one another. If you put in the energy to deal with one matter correctly then most of the time you have unconsciously already covered the rest of the contributing factors. I enjoyed all that I learned dealing with this matter and look forward to applying them to my future!
10th edition Patent, Copyright & Trademark by Ralph Warner