Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	About the Authors
1	Electronic and Software Technology	1
2	Relationship to Other Intellectual Property Areas	31
3	Searching Software Inventions	61
4	Practice Under Alappat (and Its Progeny) and the PTO Guidelines	87
5	Drafting the Specification	201
6	Crafting the Claims	217
7	Crafting the Patent Application to Achieve Broad Claim Interpretation	245
8	An Introdution to Functional Language and Means Expressions	293
9	Functional Claim Drafting in the Electronics, Computer, and Software Arts	319
10	Prosecution of Electronic and Software Patents	341
11	Foreign Patent Prosecution	375
12	Patent Portfolio Development	423
13	Noninfringement, Invalidity, and Unenforceability Opinions	439
14	Design-Around Techniques	557
15	Litigation of Patents Involving Software Technology	575
16	Miscellaneous Practice Areas	597
	App. A: Patent Application Checklist	615
	App. B: Sample Software Patent	621
	App. C: Sample Electronics Patent	667
	Table of Cases	701
	Index	721