we're talking about the patent case between Gillette and Energizer Holdings that the federal circuit addressed in 2005 before we talk about the case itself let's talk about the patent that was at issue in that case and the parts of an actual patent document as you can see here the patent that was an issue in the case between Gillette and Energizer Holdings was United States patent 6,212 777 patents are numbered in order from the first patent Grant in the United States up to the patents in the 8 millions that are being granted in the year 2013
on the face of the patent you can see General summary information including the named inventors on the patent here there are two the asse of the patent the Gillette company the date the patent is issued April 10th 2001 and the dates were various parts of this application were filed this patent was originally filed in Great Britain in September 29th 1993 within a year thereafter they filed what's called a PCT application which is an international application that we'll talk about later in this video series after filing that PCT application they elected to pursue a United States
patent which we're looking at now which eventually issued in 2001 on the face of the patent you also see the prior art these are the publicly available documents that the examiner looked at to determine where the invention that Gillette was seeking to pattent indeed was new and non obvious and deserving of United States patent on this first page we also see the name of the examiner one of the 7,700 examiners that work at the pan trademark office that looked at this application the law firm that represented Gillette in seeking this patent an abstract and a
represented drawing that generally describ this technology and allow people to understand the general nature of this patent after the first page you'll see what most pans have which is a series of drawings these drawings give people an idea of various examples of the panda technology but as discuss in a second these drawings do not Define the scope of the pattern rights this is a relatively short patent compared to most it has figure one figure two and that's all probably most patn will have many other figures in this after the drawings comes a general description of
those drawings and the nature of the technology disclosed in the patent the most important part of the patent comes comes on page four of this patent that is the claims the claims are what define the scope of gillette's patent rights if you think of patent rights as property rights you can think of the claims as establishing where the fence is around one's yard in this pen there's claims 1 through 11 each claim represents a unique set of Rights held by Gillette typically the first claim is the broadest and the one that most people would start
looking at a claim is made up of a single sentence where the patentee tries to define the scope of their patent using words now understand that one would look at a patent for a couple different reasons if you're looking at a patent to determine what technology it covers what's covered by its claims then then you need to look at the claims of the patent first now in order to understand what these actual words mean you'll probably also look back at the specification including the drawings to understand how the pant is using these words to to
define the scope of their rights if you're trying to determine whether a patent actually covers new and non- obvious technology you also look at the claims against the claims that Define the scope of your invention in order order for an invention to be pable that claim needs to be new and non obvious and we'll talk about those Concepts later in the series a patent though also makes up prior art that a subsequent patentee would look at and trying to determine whether their invention is new and non obvious so for example this Gillette patent issued in
2001 if someone was seeking to patent certain aspects of Razor geometry after 2001 one an examiner may look at the teachings of this Gillette patent to determine whether the subsequent patentee is actually seeking to pend an invention that's new and non obvious for this purpose you look at the Gillette Pand in its entirety all of its teachings including its claims its drawings and specification the entire teaching of the patent is relevant and determining what information is part of the public domain and can't be padded later on so now we've looked through the parts of a
typical United States patent next we'll talk about how we figure out the scope of one's patent rights and how they're used in protecting one's Marketplace
