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December 10, 2009
For Immediate Release

PRACTISING LAW INSTITUTE PUBLISHES
HOW TO WRITE A PATENT APPLICATION, SECOND EDITION

- Jeffrey G. Sheldon Authors Foremost Treatise on Patent Applications -

Pasadena, CA - Practising Law Institute has published the second edition of How to Write a Patent Application, written by Jeffrey G. Sheldon, founding partner of Sheldon Mak & Anderson PC, a Pasadena-based intellectual property law firm. Originally published in 1993, How to Write a Patent Application has been a benchmark text for inventors, entrepreneurs, managers and patent lawyers, both veteran and novice. It offers a step-by-step process for handling a wide range of patents, and explains, analyzes and illustrates all the essential principles and techniques of drafting solid patent applications. The new edition has a revised section numbering system and includes new and expanded discussion on a variety of topics.

"Filing a patent application is a long, complicated process with many steps to consider. The book was developed in order to provide guidelines for obtaining a patent that will be sustained by the courts" said Mr. Sheldon. "It has been a privilege to provide these guidelines for my colleagues."

The new edition expands on a variety of topics, including inventorship and the "conception" of the invention; PTO guidelines on patentable subject matter under section 101; reasons to limit the number of claims in an application; the desirability of being liberal in identifying inventors for a provisional application; additional strategies for claims that will satisfy In re Bilski; the latest PTO requirements for computer-implemented inventions; the obviousness analysis for chemical inventions; product-by-process claims; the Federal Circuit's application of the Supreme Court's KSR ruling.

Sheldon Mak & Anderson PC provides legal services in the areas of patents, copyrights and trademarks, trade secrets and IP-related litigation, both here and abroad to emerging and established businesses in an array of industries. Headquartered in Pasadena, the firm has offices in Upland, Riverside and Ventura.

The firm is located at 100 Corson Street, Third Floor
Pasadena, California 91103-3842
p: (626) 796-4000; f: (626) 795-6321
www.usip.com