Written by an individual with experience as both a chemist and a patent attorney, The Chemist's Companion Guide to Patent Law covers everything the student or working chemist needs to know about patentability, explaining important concepts of patent law (such as novelty, non-obviousness, and freedom-to-operate) in easy-to-understand terms. Through abundant examples from case law as well as real-world situations with which a researcher might be faced, this book provides readers with a better understanding of how to put that knowledge into practice.

About the Author
CHRIS P. MILLER obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and is a magna cum laude graduate of the Temple University Beasley School of Law. Dr. Miller has over a decade of research experience as a medicinal chemist in the pharmaceutical industry and has worked as an associate at a law firm as well as served as in-house patent counsel in big pharma and the biotech industry. Dr. Miller is licensed to practice law before the state bar of Pennsylvania and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He currently is practicing both medicinal chemistry and patent law in the Boston area.

MARK J. EVANS obtained his PhD from Northwestern University and his MBA from Penn State University; has fifteen years of pharmaceutical industry experience in the development of both small molecule and protein therapeutics at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Alexion Pharmaceuticals; and currently works in regulatory affairs in the Philadelphia area.

Reviews
"For anyone involved in patents or the patenting process, this book will help clarify what must go on in every step, from musing over a problem in an office, through the laboratory work, the many steps involving patent agents and attorneys, through gaining and maintaining a viable patent." (Anal Bioanal Chem, 2011)

"The book is suitably encyclopaedic and covers a substantial fraction of the patent process. A compromise is struck between suitable content and use as a student referral aid and the book seems to get this exactly right." (Reviews, December 2010)"Authors Chris Miller and Mark Evans are practicing chemists as well as patent law enthusiasts, and their appreciation of both ends of the inventor-attorney axis makes them ideally placed to advise researchers." (Nature Chemistry, January 2011)

"This well-priced, up-to-date publication is attractively printed and produced by the publisher. . . this book is especially recommended for chemists and other members of drug discovery teams, for graduate students, postdocs, for faculty members who have interests in drug discovery, for others who would like a one-volume review of U.S. patent law, and for the libraries that serve these groups". (TMCnet.com, November 2010)

"This well-priced, up-to-date publication is attractively printed and produced by the publisher. . . .this book is especially recommended for chemists and other members of drug discovery teams, for graduate students, postdocs, for faculty members who have interests in drug discovery, for others who would like a one-volume review of U.S. patent law, and for the libraries that serve these groups". (TMCnet.com, 23 November 2010) "This well-priced, up-to-date publication is attractively printed and produced by the publisher. . . .This book is especially recommended for chemists and other members of drug discovery teams, for graduate students, postdocs, for faculty members who have interests in drug discovery, for others who would like a one-volume review of U.S. patent law, and for the libraries that serve these groups." (Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2010)"

The title is accurate; it's a top-to-bottom look at the major features of patent law as it applies to the business of chemistry....... There's a lot of good stuff in this book. It's not always light reading, but it's the most readable treatment of some very complex patent issues that I've seen." (In the Pipeline, September 13, 2010)

Book Information
ISBN 9780471782438
Author Chris P. Miller
Format Hardback
Page Count 344
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 631g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 164mm * 23mm