First to File – Patents for Today's Scientist and Engineer

Bridges the gap between the realistic needs and questions of scientists and engineers and the legal skills of professionals in the patent field at a level accessible to those with no legal training

• Written for inventors in lay terms that they can relate to or easily follow

• Lays out the new features of patent law introduced by the America Invents Act of 2012

• Explains the differences between the first-to-invent and first-to-file rules and why the two rules will coexist

• Focuses on the growth of new technologies in industry versus the laws protecting them