Obtaining Maximal World-Wide Patent Coverage for Nanotechnology Inventions

Jeffrey A. McKinney
Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis LLP
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
jeffreym@burnsdoane.com  


Inventions in nanotechnology will redefine the frontiers in materials, medicine and machinery.  This redefinition will provide inventors with an opportunity to obtain a limited monopoly with respect to gating technologies.  In other words, a window currently exists where broad intellectual property protection can be obtained on fundamental nanotechnology discoveries that will drive an array of industries. Obtaining such breadth is fully dependent on the up-front design and implementation of a patent claiming strategy.

This talk will focus on how one can maximize nanotechnology patent protection by drafting claims that take into account the laws of various jurisdictions.  Specifically, it will present a strategy for obtaining maximum intellectual property coverage in the United States, Europe and Japan.  By understanding the different patent claiming requirements of those three jurisdictions, one should be able to take full advantage of available intellectual property protection during this historic period.

  

 

Presented at the International Congress of Nanotechnology, November 7-10, 2004 San Francisco, USA

 

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