Type of Credit: Elective
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本課程第一週即正式上課，請欲選修的同學務必準時出席。
本課程為完整涵蓋美國專利法與實務，課程份量會非常非常重。沒有決心每週至少花20個小時念此門課的同學，敬請不要選修！
This course is designed to ensure that students have a complete and in-depth understanding of US patent law. Please note that the loading of this class will be terribly heavy, including a lot of reading assignments, case briefings, occasional quizzes, Socratic teaching in class, and a final exam. Nevertheless, students will learn a lot from this course. Students willing to hardly study US patent law are more than welcome to take this course.
This Course covers the following topics:
能力項目說明
This course aims at helping students fully understand the US Patent Law that is the foundations of patent practice and patent management.
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The Weekly Course Schedule from Weeks 1 to 18 is as follows: Week 1: (2/21) Introduction to the course and the US Patent Law Textbook 1: Chap. 1
Week 2: (2/28) 228 Peace Remembrance Day
Week 3: (3/6) Eligible Subject Matter Textbook 1: Chap. 3 Case R&B: Alice v. CLS Bank, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014). Case R: Parker v. Flook Case R: Diamond v. Diehr Supplemental Material: Patent Law, Lectures 25-26
Week 4: (3/13) The Utility Requirement Textbook 1: Chap. 4 Case R&B: Brenner v. Manson, 383 U.S. 519 (1966). Supplemental Material: Patent Law, Lectures 5, 6, 9
Week 5: (3/20) The Novelty Requirement Textbook 1: Chap. 6 Case R: Medtronic Inc. v. Barry Supplemental Material: Patent Law, Lectures 5, 6, 9
Week 6: (3/27) The Non-obviousness Requirement Textbook 1: Chap. 7 Case R: Graham v. John Deere, 383 U.S. 1 (1966). Case R&B: KSR v. Teleflex, 550 U.S. 398 (2007). Supplemental Material: Patent Law, Lectures 7, 8, 10 Week 7: (4/3) Interschool activity week (no classes for one day)
Week 8: (4/10) Patent Specification and Disclosure Requirements Textbook 1: Chap. 5 Case R&B: McRO v. Bandai Namco Games Am., 959 F.3d 1091 (Fed. Cir. 2020) Case R: Ariad Pharmaceuticals v. Eli Lilly Supplemental Material: Patent Law, Lectures 3, 4
Week 9: (4/17) Patent Claims and Claim Construction Textbook 1: Chap. 8 Case R: Markman v. Westview Instruments 517 U.S. 370 (1996) Case R&B: Phillips v. AWH Corp. 415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005) Supplemental Material: Patent Law, Lectures 11, 12
Week 10: (4/24) Literal Infringement and Infringement under DOE Textbook 1: Chap. 9 (A)(B) Case R: Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Prods. Co., 339 U.S. 605 (1950) Limitations to DOE I—All Element Rule & Prosecution History Estoppel Case R: Corning Glass Works v. Sumitomo Electric U.S.A., Inc., 868 F.2d 1251 (Fed. Cir. 1989) Case R&B: Festo v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki, 535 U.S. 722 (2002) Supplemental Material: Patent Law at PennLaw, Lec. 14-15
Week 11: (5/1) Literal Infringement and Infringement under DOE Textbook 1: Chap. 9 (B) Limitations to DOE II--Dedication to the Public and Practicing the Prior Art Case R&B: Johnson & Johnston Assocs, v. R.E. Serv. Co., 285 F.3d 1046 (Fed. Cir. 2002) (en banc) Case R: Sporting Goods Co. v. David Geoffred & Associates, 904 F.2d 677 (Fed. Cir. 1990) Supplemental Material: Patent Law at PennLaw, Lec. 16
Week 12: (5/8) Indirect Infringement and Other Infringement Issues Textbook 1: Chap. 9 (C-E) Contributory Infringement Case R: Aro Mfg. v. Convertible Top Replacement, 377. U.S. 476. (1964) Inducement Case R&B: Sanofi v. Watson Labs. Inc., 875 F.3d 636 (Fed. Cir. 2017)
Week 13: (5/15) Defenses Textbook 1: Chaps. 10 Noninfringement Patent Invalidity Experimental Use Prior User Rights Patent Misuse Inequitable Conduct Laches Case R: Madey v. Duke University Case R&B: Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics Supplemental Material: Patent Law at PennLaw, Lec. 18
Week 14: (5/22) Post-Grant Review and Inter Partes Review Textbook 1: Chap. 13 Supplemental Material: Patent Law at PennLaw, Lec. 19 Injunctive Relief Textbook 1: Chap. 14 (A) Case R&B: eBay Inc. v. MercExchange Supplemental Material: Patent Law at PennLaw, Lec. 23
Week 15: (5/29) Monetary Damages Textbook 1: Chap. 14 (B-D) Case R&B: Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. United States Plywood Corp., 318 F. Supp. 1116 (S.D.N.Y. 1970) Supplemental Material: Patent Law at PennLaw, Lec. 24 Case R: In re Seagate, 497 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007)
Week 16: (6/5) Final Exam Week 17: (6/12) 彈性授課attending a conference of Patent Law Week 18: (6/19) 彈性授課attending a conference of Patent Law |
不得使用生成式AI工具（教師會以口試方式檢查學生是否使用）
Class Participation including Quiz 30%
Case Study and Briefing 30%
Final Exam 40%
Quiz:
Students must read the textbooks and related cases and listen to the supplementary materials in detail before class to facilitate in-depth discussions in class. Teachers will randomly conduct quizzes in class to test students’ understanding of the reading assignments.
Case Study and Homework:
1. Please brief each case and hand over the hard copy of the brief(s) at class on the corresponding class date (generally an A4 size page for each case).
2. The brief should include:
(1) fact, including the plaintiff(s), the defendant(s), the background of the case, the judicial judgment(s) in the first (and second) instances;
(2) ruling, including the statutory rules and the judicial rules;
(3) holding;
(4) reasoning.
Final Exam:
to be announced
1. Jonathan S. Masur & Lisa Larrimore Quellette, Patent Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials, 2nd Edition 2022, https://drive.google.com/file/d/10FyhsUAYEPDE-eKSbqBXJpnqlwxklUKY/view.
2. Sarah Burstein, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec & Andres Sawicki, Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook (2021). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3866658.
3. Martin J. Adelman, randall R. Rader & Gordon P. Klancnik, Patent Law (Second Edition, 2013).
4. Janice M. Mueller, Patent Law (Fourth Edition, 2013).
5. On-line class: Prof. Polk Wagner, Patent Law and Policy (Patent Law at PennLaw, 2016)
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