{"id":1161,"date":"2015-10-28T19:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2015-10-28T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:18:49","slug":"claims-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2015\/10\/28\/claims-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims = Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"water_glass\"<\/a>A post from student blogger Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

There comes a time in the semester when you start to write claims.\u00a0 When I started to write mine it was weird.\u00a0 That\u2019s the best way I can put it.\u00a0 Weird.\u00a0 The teachers warn you of its sorcery, but you don\u2019t think about it until it\u2019s time to write them.\u00a0 It\u2019s like thinking from a different part of your brain.\u00a0 The part where you look at something as its pieces instead of as a whole.\u00a0 We all view everything as the bigger picture.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a lanyard, for example.\u00a0 You just see it as something that goes around your neck or is attached to your car keys.\u00a0 But really look at it.\u00a0 Are there designs?\u00a0 Are there different materials?\u00a0 How are the materials attached to each other?\u00a0 What is the structure of it, how do the parts interact with each other?\u00a0 Here is an example of a lanyard connector claim: a coupling portion extending from the distal end of the lanyard connector body to thereby allow selective attachment of an attachment to the lanyard connector.\u00a0 Weird right? \u00a0Who knew you would ever have to explain something that way.\u00a0 This is the beginning of working out a new muscle.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be tough at first, but it will get better.\u00a0 I hope.\u00a0 I\u2019m just kidding, I know it will get better.\u00a0 All the teachers are more than willing to help you get through it, but not just get thought it, understand it.\u00a0 Hopefully we will be able to write claims as easily as writing our names.<\/p>\n

A good way to start writing a claim would be to write a picture claim.\u00a0 This is describing every part of the invention.\u00a0 You actually write all the details of the invention and all the parts of it working together as a whole.\u00a0 You want to make a list of all the nouns and then describe how they work together.\u00a0 It is important to describe how everything interacts with each other.\u00a0 Yes, again it will be weird, but you get the hang of it.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry if you\u2019re slow at it because that\u2019s exactly how I am.<\/p>\n

Once the picture claim is written you will prune and distill it to become the broad claim.\u00a0 This is getting rid of anything that is unnecessary and making things more general.\u00a0 You want your claims to cover as much as possible so that nobody can find a way around your invention.\u00a0 Nobody wants their patent to be Swiss cheese.<\/p>\n

Well I hope you enjoyed my crash course about claims and that I didn\u2019t scare you away!\u00a0 When you finally end up writing claims the first thought will be, \u201cthis is weird\u201d.\u00a0 Yes I realize I\u2019ve said weird a bunch of times, probably too many, but it\u2019s the perfect fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post from student blogger Nicole There comes a time in the semester when you start to write claims.\u00a0 When I started to write mine it was weird.\u00a0 That\u2019s the best way I can put it.\u00a0 Weird.\u00a0 The teachers warn … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}