Patent Family Analysis
Price range: $295 through $334
About the Course
Patent progeny can often be more valuable than their parents. For example, continuation patents provide the holder of a parent patent the ability to amend and broaden claimed inventions, creating valuable optionality for patent holders.
However, child patents can also introduce risk. A more rigorous examiner reviewing continuation applications may uncover prior art that could threaten the validity of parent patents.
This seminar provides a thorough overview of patent families, including the benefits and risks associated with provisional patent applications, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, and foreign filings.
Among the issues discussed during this webinar are:
- •How are priority dates determined with respect to child patents?
- •Does acquiring a pending patent application impair the buyer’s ability to file continuations?
- •How are patent lives determined for continuations-in-part?
- •Should analysts be concerned if different lawyers or law firms drafted the parent and child patents?
- •Under what circumstances might a patent examiner require a terminal disclaimer?
- •What continuity requirements exist for inventor commonality across parent and child patents?
- •What risks arise when a foreign family member later becomes the basis for a continuation-in-part?
- •What inconsistencies between provisional applications and patent descendants could threaten the family?
- •To what extent can continuation claims entrap competitors for infringement purposes?
- •Is common ownership required for selling or asserting parent and child patents?
- •Should valuation analysts be concerned about numerous abandoned child patents?
- •What is the status of child patents when parent patents lapse due to non-payment of maintenance fees?
- •How do patent families impact citation analysis?
This course also includes an explanation and example of an IP Roadmap.
Course Leader
John Boyd, Partner, Rimon Law Group
John Boyd has practiced intellectual property law for over 15 years and is registered before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at publicly traded biotechnology and semiconductor companies and practiced at major law firms, including Winston & Strawn.
Prior to private practice, John worked at the USPTO examining applications related to superconductors, ceramics, coatings, pigments, and advanced materials.
John has advised startups on cost-effective IP strategies, is the sole inventor on five issued U.S. patents, a co-inventor on several applications, and has successfully sold and litigated multiple patent portfolios.
Course Length
Approx. 1.5 hours
Pricing
$295 per user
Optional: A quiz is offered for an additional $39. This 10-question quiz is delivered in true/false and multiple choice format. Certificates of Achievement in Analyzing Patent Families will be furnished to those that score 70% and above.
| Proficiency Quiz Option | Course Only (no proficiency quiz) ($295), Course + Proficiency Quiz ($334) |
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