ARLINGTON, Va., May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the 2010 Supplement to Patents and the Federal Circuit, Ninth Edition.

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This monumental reference addresses ever-changing issues and developments in substantive patent law, infringement litigation, and procedure. The authors distill the opinions issued by the primary source of governing law on patents, thus providing practitioners a convenient, one-source access to controlling case law. The Ninth Edition covers all important Federal Circuit decisions through the end of calendar year 2008, including the continuing saga of the Federal Circuit's struggles to fashion a workable protocol for claim construction--the most important issue in patent law--that will enable district court judges to get it right, as a matter of law.

The 2010 Supplement outlines:

• The Federal Circuit's Forest Group decision, which has led to a new wave of qui tam false marking lawsuits
• The most recent chapter on injunction requirements, including the court's decision in i4i v. Microsoft
• The Federal Circuit's continuing application of the "machine-or-transformation" test leading up to the Supreme Court's review of In re Bilski
• The latest guidance on which types of licensing offers will create jurisdiction for a declaratory judgment action, including the court's 2009 decision in Hewlett Packard
• Continuing developments in obviousness law in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2007 KSR decision
• How the Federal Circuit's 2008 Egyptian Goddess decision on design patent infringement has also affected the standards of design patent validity, including the court's recent International Seaway decision
• Updates to the law of inequitable conduct and the level of detail required to plead inequitable conduct claims
• The Federal Circuit's review of significant ITC decisions, including Amgen and Kyocera
• The court's recent treatment of contributory infringement and inducement, with a clarification of what constitutes a substantial noninfringing use

The main edition and supplement of Patents and the Federal Circuit both deal with the high-profile cases and the "uncelebrated decisions" that tend to slip under the radar, and fit them into an analytical framework that reveals their true significance. All material is organized in a way that is intuitively familiar to patent lawyers, so they can access the information they need quickly and easily.

Cynthia A. Homan and Charles M. McMahon are the authors of the 2010 Supplement. The editor-in-chief and author of the main volume is Robert L. Harmon, a former patent litigator who has spent the past 18 years as a special master, mediator, arbitrator, and expert witness in patent infringement cases and was a partner with a large intellectual property law firm for 33 years.

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