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Table of Contents Introduction ........................vii Part I --Preliminary Instructions ..............1 1.Burdens of Proof .....................3 2.Patent Instructions ....................5 2.1 The Parties and the Nature of the Case .........6 2.2 The Patent System,Generally .............7 2.3 The Parts of a Patent .................8 2.4 The Signi .cance of Patent Claims ...........9 2.5 How a Patent Is Obtained ..............10 3.Issues to Be Decided ...................11 3.1 [Plaintiff 's ]Contentions ...............13 3.1.1 Direct Infringement ............14 3.1.2 Indirect Infringement ...........15 3.1.3 Damages .................16 3.1.4 Willful Infringement ...........17 3.2 [Defendant 's ]Contentions ..............18 3.2.1 Invalidity ................19 3.2.2 Anticipation ...............20 3.2.3 Obviousness ...............21 3.2.4 Written Description/Claiming Requirements ...............22 3.2.5 Inequitable Conduct ............24 Part II --Final Instructions .................25 4.The Parties and Their Contentions ............27 4.1 The Parties and the Nature of the Case .........29 4.2 [Plaintiff 's ]Contentions ...............30 4.3 [Defendant 's ]Contentions ..............31 4.4 Summary of Patent Issues and Burdens of Proof .....32 5.The Patent System ....................33 6.The Claims of the Patent in Suit .............35 6.1 Construction of the Claims ..............37 6.2 Independent and Dependent Claims ..........41 6.3 Product-by-Process Claims ..............42 6.4 Means-plus-Function Claim Limitations ........43 6.5 Transitional Phrases --Introduction ..........45 6.5.1 "Comprising "Claims ...........47 6.5.2 "Consisting Essentially Of "Claims .....48 6.5.3 "Consisting Of "Claims ..........49 6.6 Limitations of the Claims at Issue ...........50 7.Infringement --Introduction ................51 7.1 Patent Infringement Generally --Direct Infringement ...53 7.2 Literal Infringement .................55 7.3 Infringement --Every Claim Limitation Must Be Present, Either Literally or under the Doctrine of Equivalents ...56 7.4 Limitations on the Doctrine of Equivalents .......60 7.5 Infringement --Means-plus-Function Claim Limitations .....................67 7.6 Infringement --Means-plus-Function Claim Limitations .....................71 7.7 Determination of Infringement ............75 7.8The Experimental Use Exception ...........76 7.9 Infringement of Product-by-Process Claims .......78 7.10 Infringement of Dependent Claims ..........82 7.11 Infringement and Improvements to Patented Invention ......................83 7.12 Indirect Infringement ................85 7.12.1 Inducing Patent Infringement ........87 7.12.2 Contributory Infringement .........90 8.Willful Infringement ...................93 9.Validity in General ....................99 9.1 Section 112 Defenses --Introduction ..........103 9.1.1 Written Description ............106 9.1.2 Enablement ...............108 9.1.3 Best Mode ................110 9.1.4 De .niteness ...............113 9.2 Prior Art --Introduction ...............116 9.3 The Prior Art ....................119 9.3.1 Prior Art --Date of Invention ........121 9.3.2 Prior Public Knowledge or Use --in General .................125 9.3.3 Prior Art --Prior Knowledge or Use by Another in the United States ........126 9.3.4 Prior Art --Public Use More Than One Year before the Application Was Filed ......127 9.3.5 Prior Art --Prior Public Use or Knowledge ................128 9.3.6 Prior Art --On-Sale or Offered for Sale More Than One Year before the Application Was Filed ..................130 9.3.7 Experimental Use .............134 9.3.8Prior Art --Prior Printed Publication .....137 9.3.9 Prior Art --Prior Invention .........139 9.3.10 Prior Art --Prior Patents and Patent Applications ...............143 9.4 Derivation .....................145 9.5 Anticipation --Introduction ..............147 9.6 Anticipation/Lack of Novelty .............149 9.7 Obviousness --Introduction ..............151 9.8Obviousness ....................154 9.8.1 The Scope and Content of the Prior Art ...156 9.8.2 Differences between the Invention of the Claims and the Prior Art ..........157 9.8.3 Level of Ordinary Skill ..........158 9.8.4 Objective Indications Concerning Obviousness ...............159 9.8.5 Determination of Obviousness .......161 10.Inequitable Conduct --Introduction ............163 10.1 Inequitable Conduct --in General ...........166 10.2 Materiality .....................168 10.3 Intent .......................170 10.4 Balancing of Materiality and Intent ..........171 11.Damages --Introduction ..................173 11.1 Damages --in General ................176 11.2 Compensatory Patent Damages in General .......177 11.3 Notice Requirement for Patents with Product Claims ..178 11.4 Two Types of Damages --Lost Pro .ts and Reasonable Royalty .......................182 11.5 Lost Pro .ts --in General ...............185 11.6 Lost Pro .ts Due to Lost Sales .............187 11.6.1 Manufacturing and Marketing Ability ....189 11.6.2 Absence of Acceptable Non-infringing Substitutes ................191 11.7 Lost Pro .ts Due to Price Erosion/Cost Escalation ....193 11.8Amount of Lost Pro .ts ................195 11.9 Reasonable Royalty .................196 11.9.1 What Is a Reasonable Royalty?.......197 11.10 Total Damages ...................199
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Instructions to juries -- United States -- Forms.
Patent suits -- United States -- Forms.