The patent infringement litigation handbook avoidance and management - Thiele, Alan R. (American Bar Association, 2010)
Includes index
Patent infringement litigation avoidance: Patent protection strategy -- Pursuing a quality invention protection plan -- Offensive patenting -- Defensive patenting -- Determining if a patent is ready for litigation and if not, what to do about it -- Inventorship and invention ownership -- Patent infringement litigation management: Pre-suit considerations -- The role of corporate counsel or corporate executives in a patent infringement dispute -- Managing costs and billing -- Pre-suit investigation -- Parties, jurisdiction, and venue (who, and where to sue) -- Pleadings -- Negotiated resolution -- Discovery -- Pretrial motions and conference -- Claim construction and Markman hearing -- Preparation for trial -- Picking the jury -- Trial of a patent infringement case -- Remedies -- Jury instructions and findings of fact and conclusions of law -- Post-trial motions