Mueller on Patent Law is an authoritative legal treatise available in electronic form on IntelliConnect as a standalone subscription or as part of the IP Virtual Library. The two volume set provides convenient, concise, and timely one-source access to all you need to know to maneuver the shifting waters of patentability, validity and enforcement.

In Mueller on Patent Law: Patentability and Validity (Volume 1) and Mueller on Patent Law: Patent Enforcement (Volume 2), this indispensable resource:

• Covers patentability, nonobviousness, utility, drafting claims and supporting disclosures, double patenting, novelty, priority and both pre-and post-passage of the America Invents Act.
• Discusses the defenses to patent infringement claims as well as the remedies in such cases, claim interpretation, including Markman hearings and standards of review.
• Includes treatment of international considerations in patenting.
• Explains complex patent cases and concepts in a clear-cut, accessible way and identifies what is truly important about each issue.
• Accelerates legal research by providing practitioners what they truly and“need to knowand” about patentability, validity, patent prosecution, and patent enforcement without sacrificing the depth and complexity of the subject matter.
• Provides analysis of patent law in light of the legal changes that have and will occur under the new first-inventor-to-file system as implemented by the America Invents Act and expert guidance on the interpretation, drafting and litigating of patent claims.

Each volume of Mueller on Patent Law

• Explains complex patent cases and concepts in a clear-cut, accessible way and identifies what is truly important about each issue.
• Accelerates legal research by providing what you and“need to knowand” about patent procurement and enforcement without sacrificing the depth and complexity of the subject matter.
• Offers a practical guide to understanding how and why patent law has developed in the Federal Circuit era, and how the Supreme Courtand’s active oversight is changing the law.
• Analyzes patent law in light of the significant changes that have and will occur as implemented by the AIA.
• Highlights the central importance of careful patent claim drafting and interpretation in all aspects of patent practice.