Wednesday, July 17th 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

*The Nuts & Bolts program is an add-on session

New to patent practice? Or just want a refresher on patent prosecution?

Join us at the NAPP Annual Meeting for "Nuts & Bolts - What You Need to Know About Patent Prosecution (But No One Taught You)", an add-on session by Priya Sinha Cloutier, David Grossman, David Ladner, and David Boundy. 

The patent application you write today will live for 20-25 years. Your inventors may stake a fortune on how well you do... have you done the best possible job drafting the application? Four experts in patent preparation and prosecution will explore strategies and pitfalls in the drafting of patent claims, patent specifications, drawings, forms and office action responses. For a detailed outline of the program, please see below. 

1. Client Counseling - David Ladner

A. Preliminaries
B. Timing
C. Cost Consideration
D. Value $$$
E. Patentability
F. Materials from the Client
G. What order to do things?
2. Claim Drafting - David Grossman
A. Importance
B. What and How Many Inventions Are there?
C. Essential to Cover the Key Aspects and Embodiments
D. US vs EP Practice?
E. Approaches
F. Terms of Art
G. Types of Claims (Utility)
H. Structural Layout
3. Drawings and Specification - David Boundy
A. What's the purpose of the drawings?
B. What's the purpose of the specification?
C. Background
D. Stuff to write in the last hour, after the rest is done, and you're on final approach for filing
4. Prosecution - Priya Sinha Cloutier
A. Pre-Exam
B. Examination on the merits
C. Rejections and strategies to overcome them