Inventor's Guide to Trademarks and Patents, The - Brossura

Fellenstein, Craig

9780132597562: Inventor's Guide to Trademarks and Patents, The

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ISBN 10: 013259756X ISBN 13: 9780132597562

Casa editrice: Prentice Hall, 2011

Provides information on the patent and trademark process, covering such topics as refining an invention, preparing patent submissions, patent defense strategies, and commercializing inventions.

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L'autore:

Craig Fellenstein is an IBM Global Services Chief Architect. Since 2000, he has had more than 65 patent applications filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and 13 invention publications in Journals for IBM. Fellenstein now serves as IBM Global Services Integrated Technology Services Chief Architect and Senior Executive Consultant in the IBM Center of Excellence for On Demand Business, and formerly as the Senior IT Architect in the IBM CIO's Office–working with leading IBM customers worldwide.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

This is the complete guide to intellectual property: thinking concepts for discovering it, creating it, protecting it, and profiting from it

Whether you're an individual inventor or an innovator inside a small to medium business or large enterprise, you need a deep, business-focused understanding of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, trade secrets, and the entire invention process. In this book, Craig Fellenstein teaches his own critical techniques that have helped him to have over 65 patent applications filed.

Drawing on his expertise in mentoring invention and patent teams, Fellenstein introduces best practices for managing the entire process of creating and protecting intellectual property.

Coverage includes

How inventors think: a complete case study teaching how to conceptualize ideas for new patentable inventions–causing discovery of new patent ideas
Validating your invention's uniqueness: critical skills, practical search tools, and the principles of "prior art"
Refining and strengthening your inventions
Preparing patents that professional evaluators will view favorably
Multiple submissions: discovering and filing for follow-on patents that flow from your original ideas
Getting a strong patent that will be more likely to withstand any potential challenges after issuance
Establishing effective incentives for the creation of new intellectual property
Harvesting and commercializing inventions: practical lessons for inventors
Using "invention teams" to systematize and accelerate the innovation process
Different ways to protect your intellectual property: patents, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, and copyrights