Intellectual Property Law

Chapter 17 Internet Resources Solutions

1. Access Section 2015 (III) of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, available
through the website of the USPTO. What is the legislative history underlying the
section of the AIA that is discussed?
“[T]he U.S. Patent Office has already issued patents on genes, stems
cells, animals with human genes, and a host of non-biologic products
used by humans, but it has not issued patents on claims directed to
human organisms, including human embryos and fetuses. My
amendment would not affect the former, but would simply affirm the
latter.”

2. Access the Glossary available through the website of the USPTO. What is the
definition of “patent”?
The USPTO provides this definition: “a property right granted by the
Government of the United States of America to an inventor ‘to
exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the
invention throughout the United States or importing the invention
into the United States’ for a limited time in exchange for public
disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.”

3. Access the website for the USPTO, locate the following patents, and give a brief
description of each: Patent Nos. D734,684 and PP26,006.
Patent No. 7734,684 is for the ornamental design for a ribbon
bracelet. Patent No. PP26,006 is for a hibiscus plant named Adonis
Yellow.

4. Access the website for the USPTO, locate Patent No. 8,850,140, identify the fifth
inventor listed, and briefly describe the patent.
The fifth inventor listed is Steve Jobs. The patent is for data backup
for mobile devices.