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Abstract & Summary Drafting
September 15, 2010
Presenter: Praveen
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Introduction
What is an Abstract
Laws governing drafting an Abstract
Writing an Abstract
What is a Summary
Laws governing drafting a Summary
Why is it sometimes avoided
Writing a Summary
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Abstract
An abstract comprises or concentrates in
itself the essential qualities of a larger
specification in a short, abbreviated form
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37 C.F.R. 1.72 (b)
A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the
specification must commence on a separate sheet,
preferably following the claims, under the heading
Abstract or Abstract of the Disclosure. The sheet or
sheets presenting the abstract may not include other
parts of the application or other material. The abstract in
an application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111 may not
exceed 150 words in length. The purpose of the
abstract is to enable the United States Patent and
Trademark Office and the public generally to determine
quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of
the technical disclosure.
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37 C.F.R. 1.72 (b)
The abstract must commence on a
separate physical sheet or electronic
page or be submitted as the first page of
the patent in a reissue application or
reexamination proceeding ( 1.72(b))
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37 C.F.R. 1.438 (b)
The abstract: Lack of an abstract upon
filing of an international application will not
affect the granting of a filing date.
However, failure to furnish an abstract
within one month from the date of the
notification by the Receiving Office will
result in the international application being
declared withdrawn.
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Writing an Abstract
The abstract should be drafted on a
separate sheet, after the claims
The abstract will be printed on the first
page of your patent
The abstract should be put on a new page
with the heading ABSTRACT
The abstract must be concise, complete,
clear, and as broad (nonlimiting) as
possible
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Writing an Abstract
Paraphrase the Claims
Active voice
Dont use: This invention relates to,
State directly: A bicycle pedal mechanism including,
etc.
Antecedent basis
Diff b/w provisional and regular applications
If reference numerals are introduced in the abstract, use
them within parenthesis.
e.g. CR device (110)
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Templates for starting an Abstract
The present invention provides a method
and system for performing DC-offset
correction in a radio frequency (RF)
receiver.
A method and system for performing DC-
offset correction in a radio frequency (RF)
receiver is provided.
Disclosed herein is a method and system
for performing DC-offset correction in a
radio frequency (RF) receiver.
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Summary
A concise explanation of the subject
matter defined in one or more
independent claims involved
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37 C.F.R. 1.73
A brief summary of the invention
indicating its nature and substance, which
may include a statement of the object of
the invention, should precede the detailed
description. Such summary should, when
set forth, be commensurate with the
invention as claimed and any object
recited should be that of the invention as
claimed.
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Points
Write the Summary broadly
Your summary should not be longer than about one
page
Your summary can simply paraphrase your main claim
or can be a short description (one or two sentences) of
the essence of your invention.
The PTOs Rules 73 and 77 state that the specification
should contain a summary of the claimed invention
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Templates For Beginning A
Summary
An aspect of the invention is to provide a method and a system for
(automatically managing virtual output queues in a switching
fabric).
In order to fulfill the above aspect, the method includes detecting
if a link is a non-operational-link or an operational-link. The
method further includes
An object of the present invention is to provide a method and
system for (facilitating verification of an entity).
Another object of the present invention is to (minimize false
negatives and false positives).
The above objects are achieved by providing a method, system
and computer program product for (facilitating verification of an
entity).
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Exemplary Independent Claim
A method for facilitating verification of an
entity, the entity comprising a plurality of
attributes, the method comprising:
obtaining a set of attributes from the plurality of
attributes based on a set of predefined
parameters;
selecting a set of algorithms corresponding to
each attribute belonging to the set of attributes;
and
executing at least one algorithm belonging to a set
of algorithms corresponding to each attribute.
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Corresponding Summary
An object of the present invention is to provide a method and
system for facilitating verification of an entity.

Another object of the present invention is to minimize false
negatives and false positives.

The above objects are achieved by providing a method, system
and computer program product for facilitating verification of an
entity. The entity includes a plurality of attributes. The method
includes obtaining a set of attributes from the plurality of attributes
based on a set of predefined parameters. The method further
includes selecting a set of algorithms corresponding to each
attribute belonging to the set of attributes based on a set of
predefined parameters. Thereafter, the method executes one or
more algorithms belonging to a set of algorithms corresponding to
each attribute.
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