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81 J. Pat & Trademark Off. Soc'y 11 (1999)
The Use of Delaying Tactics to Obtain Submarine Patents and Amend around A Patent That a Competitor Has Designed around

handle is hein.journals/jpatos81 and id is 25 raw text is: The use of Delaying Tactics to Obtain Submarine Patents and Amend Around A Patent that A Competitor has Designed Around Steve Blount* I. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 12 II. DESIGNING AROUND PATENTS .................................................. 12 III. SUBMARINE PATENTS A . Introduction ..................................................................... 13 B. Are Submarine Patents Really a Problem? ................... 14 C. The Layout of a Submarine Patent ................................ 15 IV. CASE LAW INTERPRETING UNDUE DELAY IN PATENT PROSECU- TION ...................................................................................... 17 V. THE LATE COMMANDER JEROME LEMELSON ............................ 19 A . Lemelson v. Ford ........................................................... 20 VI. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GILBERT HYATT ............................. 24 VII. SOLUTIONS TO THE SUBMARINE PATENT PROBLEM A. The Doctrine of Late Claiming ..................................... 27 B. Requiring Publication of Pending Applications ............. 28 VIII. AMENDING AROUND A PATENT THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNED A ROUN D ................................................................................ 29 IX . C ON CLU SION ............................................................................. 31 * B.S. UCLA, B.S.M.E California State University Northridge, M.S.M.E. California State Uni- versity Northridge, J.D. Cleveland State University.

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