Patents and Patentability

This session is taught by two Florida registered patent attorneys.  Through the exclusive rights granted by patent laws for a limited period of time, a patent owner has the potential to gain a dominant market position with regard to the scope of the invention. Patents provide their owners control over the making, using, selling, or importing of an invention. This module presents both the creation of patent rights as well as the enforcement of such rights (and defenses against infringement claims).  These include practical considerations and ethical and legal constraints that lawyers must consider under the patent Bar rules when counseling clients on translating research into a patented process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter without unintentionally destroying the exclusivity in the patent or diminishing its value.

Scott Smiley, Esq. Founder & Managing Partner, The Concept Law Group