ARTICLE
13 December 2015

Drafting And Enforcing Semiconductor Patents

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Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

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Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP is a law firm dedicated to advancing ideas, discoveries, and innovations that drive businesses around the world. From offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Finnegan works with leading innovators to protect, advocate, and leverage their most important intellectual property (IP) assets.
Protecting semiconductor device and fabrication process inventions can be challenging.
United States Intellectual Property

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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