The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division has published "Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer's Guide," a new book that presents information on analyzing inventions and capturing them in a sophisticated set of patent claims.

The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division has published "Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer's Guide," a new book that presents information on analyzing inventions and capturing them in a sophisticated set of patent claims. The ABA said a central theme to the book is the importance of using the problem-solution paradigm to identify the 'inventive concept' before the claim-drafting begins. It includes information on drafting individual claims, intermediate and narrow-scope claims, definition claims, the claim suit, including direct infringers, claim diversity, and claim review with enforcement potential. The final section carries information on preparing and prosecuting the patent application with information on writing the summary and background, dealing with claim rejection, claim amendments and working with the inventor. The book costs $80.