INDEX

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Absolute novelty, 68–69, 122–123

Accelerated examination, 34, 70, 146

Activation energy, 182

Agreement to assign, 32

Alternatives:

breadth of claims, 116

consumer-equivalent alternatives, 88

in design-around strategies, 203

development in white space, 114

effect on strategic inventing, 142, 203

patent strategy, 109, 120, 125, 131

protection against competitors’, 168

revelation, in patent applications, 38, 45, 60, 62

value of patents, 112, 193

Altshuller, Genrich, 211, 217

America Invents Act (AIA), 67–72

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