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The 2009 Supplement for Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing covers the most current topics in the patent world, including functional claiming-the dichotomy between how courts treat this issue and how the USPTO treats it; the risks of using coined terminology in patent claims and how it can be a trap for the unwary; obviousness issues in mechanical patent applications after KSR; inter partes reexamination strategy after Cooper Technologies v. Dudas; patents relating to stem cells in the European Patent Office; and claim interpretation of patents obtained through the EPO.