How to Draft Claims - Part 4 - Independent and Dependent Claims. EP012

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06/02/2018 10 min Episodio 12
How to Draft Claims - Part 4 - Independent and Dependent Claims. EP012

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In this episode I go through the differences between independent claims and dependent claims and why you should have a mix of broad independent claims and narrower dependent claims in your patent.  Dependent claims serve as backups in case your broad independent claim is found invalid and I go through some examples of how these are drafted.

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