Patent Drafting

# Patent Drafting — Intellectual Property Protection for Research

## Overview
Draft patent applications for scientific inventions, covering claims, specification, and prior art analysis.

## Patent Application Structure

### 1. Title
- Descriptive but not limiting
- Include key technical terms

### 2. Abstract (150 words max)
- Technical problem, solution, key advantage
- Independent claim in prose form

### 3. Background / Field of Invention
- Technical field
- Prior art and its limitations
- Problem to be solved

### 4. Summary of Invention
- Brief description matching broadest claims
- Key advantages over prior art

### 5. Detailed Description
- Best mode of carrying out the invention
- Enable a person skilled in the art to reproduce
- Include examples and experimental data
- Reference all figures

### 6. Claims
- **Independent claims**: broadest protection
- **Dependent claims**: specific embodiments
- Method claims, composition claims, use claims
- Means-plus-function for apparatus

### 7. Drawings / Figures
- Flow diagrams, structural formulas, experimental results
- Reference numerals consistent with description

## Prior Art Search Strategy
1. Patent databases: Google Patents, USPTO, WIPO, EPO, CNIPA
2. Scientific literature: PubMed, Google Scholar
3. Conference proceedings and theses
4. Product catalogs and technical documents

## Key Principles
- **Enablement**: Specification must enable reproduction
- **Novelty**: At least one element not in prior art
- **Non-obviousness**: Combination/modification not obvious to skilled person
- **Written description**: Inventor possessed the invention at filing date