Patent agents' manual.

1. What is a patent agent?
2. What is meant by intellectual property?
3. What constitutes an invention?
4. From invention to patent?
5. Drafting the description and the abstract;
6. Drafting the patent claims;
7. Trademarks and service marks;
8. Industrial designs;
9. The patent agent and his client;
10. The patent agent and the industrial property;
11. Patent agents and the law;
12. Structures of patent departments and patent agencies;
13. Training to be a patent agent;
14. Examining and qualifying patent agents;
15. Associations of patent agents;
Appendix : The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT);
Annex 1. States party to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property;
Annex 2. Contracting parties to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT);
Annex 3. WIPO standard ST.15 : Guidelines for the wording of titles of inventions in patent documents;
Annex 4. WIPO standard ST.12/A : General guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents;
Annex 5. WIPO standard ST.23 : Recommendation for the presentation of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences in patent applications and in published patent documents.