United States:
Drafting And Enforcing Semiconductor Patents
13 December 2015
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
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Protecting semiconductor device and fabrication process
inventions can be challenging. This is because showing that such
inventions are being use by others often requires reverse
engineering, a process that is costly and time consuming and that
may not even show that an invention is being used. Patent drafters
who do not fully understand the underlying technology can thus make
enforcement of valuable semiconductor IP very difficult. In this
article, Finnegan attorneys
Doris J. Hines and
Howard Herr discuss several issues relating to semiconductor
patent enforcement, and several factors to consider when drafting
semiconductor patent applications with an eye towards
enforcement.
Published by ECN Magazine
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