Principles of Patent Law, Cases and Materials

John M. Golden, University of Texas School of Law

F. Scott Kieff, George Washington University Law School

Pauline Newman, George Mason University School of Law

Henry E. Smith, Harvard University Law School

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The Eighth Edition marks a milestone. This edition comes just over twenty-five years after the first edition of Principles of Patent Law. Updates include newly added excerpts from (1) Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., 139 S. Ct. 628 (2019), on the scope of prior art for purposes of assessing the novelty and nonobviousness of a claimed invention; (2) Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, 143 S. Ct. 1243 (2023), on the relationship between the scope of patent claims and the requirement of an enabling disclosure; (3) Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, 138 S. Ct. 1365 (2018), on the constitutionality of post-issuance proceedings in which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may cancel previously issued patent claims; and (4) Ericsson, Inc. v. D-Link Systems, Inc., 773 F.3d 1201 (Fed. Cir. 2014), on reasonable royalties for standard-essential patents. With judicious cuts offsetting new additions, the length of Principles of Patent Law has remained substantially the same across the Seventh and Eighth Editions. We hope that we have thereby succeeded in preserving the Seventh Edition’s spryness while still staying true to the First Edition’s vision.

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