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Patent EngineeringIEOR 190G
CET: Center for Entrepreneurship &Technology
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Dr. Tal Lavian(408) 209-9112
[email protected] 321 Haviland
Mondays 4:00-6:00Week 8: Coffee Sleeve Project
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Anticipation and Obviousness
2. What else matters besides <Prior Art>?Anticipation: NOTHING. Except that the single
piece of Prior Art must ENABLE at least as well as the patent does.
Obviousness: LOTS.The PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS.
(really not much beyond the p.a., but there’s a formula for them, from the statute and from court decisions)
The SECONDARY CONSIDERATIONS
Guess which one Accused Infringers prefer to use to challenge a patent?What about Patent Owners?
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Class Project: Coffee Sleeves
• You will receive approximately 40 different Coffee Sleeves
• Some of them will have the patent number– Research the differences between the
different patents online
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• Patents as small as a Coffee Sleeve:
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Coffee Sleeves Patents
• 5,205,473 Starbucks/Seattle’s Best• 6,863,644 Starbucks/Seattle’s Best• 5,826,786 The Sleeve• GB: 2,382,049 Starbucks/Seattle’s Best• HK: 1,055,927 Starbucks• 5,425,497 Peet’s Coffee/Moschetti Espresso• 6,986,438 Ultimate Cup Jacket
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• Starbucks/Seattle’s Best: recyclable, corrugated container holders
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• Peet’s Coffee/Moschetti Espresso:safe cup holder, simple manufacturing
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• James Dickert: cup holder sleeve
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• Bernard Leung: insulating sleeve
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