This presentation will discuss how to evaluate a patent to determine whether you are infringing, including infringement of each type of patent claim: article, machine, process and composition of matter, as well as method-of-doing-business claims. The discussion will take into consideration direct infringement, contributory infringement and inducing infringement; it will also discuss the doctrine of equivalents in evaluating infringement and the issue of designing around patent claims to avoid infringement. Finally, it will briefly discuss questions of patent validity.

Author: Stephen Feldman