APPLICATION LIST|ARCHIVED APPLICATIONS|US PATENT CLASSIFICATIONS
This page contains educational materials that will guide you in learning more about prior art, the Peer to Patent Project and the goals of Community Patent Review.
Step 1: About Peer to Patent. How to use Peer to Patent
How to use Peer to Patent?
Step 2: Learn about patents
Ius Mentis
When is something prior art against a patent? How prior art is used against a patent? What can be prior art? When is something prior art? Priority rights. Grace periods. Earlier filed patent applications.
URL: http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart
JOM - Member Journal for The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
Walter J. Blenko, Jr.'s article on "Considering What Constitutes Prior Art in the United States."
URL: http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9106...
Patent Law Links
Free Links to patent and intellectual property-related sites, including patent search engines, patent search sites, and journals.
URL: http://www.patentlawlinks.com/
What are claims?
(Time: 0:49 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
How to determine invention date?
(Time: 2:21 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
Step 3: Learn about prior art
Tutorial Question and Answer Game
Introductory Q's and A's providing high-level summary information about important concepts
URL: http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/tutorial/test.html
Prior Art Pop Quiz
A short series of questions designed to help a reviewer evaluate his or her mastery of important concepts. The first 5 questions are directed to very basic concepts,; the next five are directed to more complex concepts.
URL: http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/tutorial/test.html
What are references?
(Time: 0:45 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
The five types of prior art
(Time: 0:31 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
1. Prior invention
(Time: 0:30 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
2. Accessible for more than a year
(Time: 1:29 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
3. Prior application
(Time: 1:19 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
4. Obviousness
(Time: 1:41 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
5. Double Patenting
(Time: 1:12 min | MP3 format)
Original produced by Daniel Ravicher (Executor Director, Public Patent Foundation
Edited with permission by Brian Pyne (Institute for Information Law & Policy, NYLS)
Step 4: Search scientific resources
Start searching for prior art for a particular patent. Check out Search Resources for some ideas on where to begin.
Step 5: Look up a term
Glossary of Useful Terms
A glossary of patent-related terms used elsewhere in the tutorial materials. (Links are also provided to these definitions from other sections referencing them.)
URL: http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/tutorial/definitio...
Law.com's Law Dictionary
Search for definitions of legal terms
URL: http://dictionary.law.com/