Introduction to Patent Law

Written by leading scholars, each title in the "Introduction to Law" series contains comprehensive treatment in black-letter style. Featuring footnotes citing to case law, statutory and other authorities, these volumes are ideal for in-depth research on particular issues and points of law.

Patent attorney, author, and educator Janice M. Mueller co-founded the Chisum Patent Academy with Donald S. Chisum in 2009. From 2004-2011, Janice was a tenured full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she taught and wrote in the field of intellectual property law with an emphasis in U.S. and comparative patent law. Janice has also taught at the John Marshall Law School (Chicago), Suffolk University (Boston), the University of Kentucky, the University of Washington, Seattle University, Santa Clara University, and William Mitchell College of Law. The first woman law clerk to Judge Giles S. Rich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Janice litigated patent and intellectual property cases for the U.S. Department of Justice before entering academia. She is the author of Patent Law, Fourth Edition (Aspen Student Treatise Series 2013) and the two-volume, annually-updated practitioner treatise, Mueller on Patent Law (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business). Volume I of MOPL (first published 2012) focuses on patentability and validity; Volume II of MOPL (first published 2014) covers enforcement. For detailed tables of content, go to muelleronpatentlaw.com.