A step-by-step guide which walks you through each stage of the patenting process, all while providing you tips on what to do after you receive your patent, as well as suggestions for marketing your invention. Complete with examples, author tips and forms. The Complete Patent Kit Fourth Edition is completely revised to bring you up-to-date with the Leahy-Smith America Invention Act (AIA). Written by James Rogers, J.D., Ph.D., a patent attorney and former patent examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office where he examined hundreds of patent applications in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields.