Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1143 g
Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1143 g
ISBN: 978-0-471-44998-0
Verlag: IEEE COMPUTER SOC PR
An excellent text for clients to read before meeting with attorneys so they'll understand the fundamentals of patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, mask work, and unfair competition laws
This is not a "do-it-yourself" manual but rather a ready reference tool for inventors or creators that will generate maximum efficiencies in obtaining, preserving and enforcing their intellectual property rights. It explains why they need to secure the services of IPR attorneys
Coverage includes employment contracts, including the ability of engineers to take confidential and secret knowledge to a new job, shop rights and information to help an entrepreneur establish a non-conflicting enterprise when leaving their prior employment
Sample forms of contracts, contract clauses, and points to consider before signing employment agreements are included
Coverage of copyright, software protection, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as well as the procedural variances in international intellectual property laws and procedures
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Top Ten List of Intellectual Property Protection.
Eli Whitney.
1 Overview of Intellectual Property Law.
Cyrus McCormick.
2 The Use of Intellectual Property in Business.
Charles Goodyear.
3 How to Read and Obtain Information from a Modern U.S. Patent.
George Westinghouse.
4 Introduction to Patents.
John Deere.
5 Patentable Subject Matter and Utility.
Alfred Nobel.
6 Novelty--The Invention Must Be New.
Louis Pasteur.
7 Requirement of Non-Obviousness for Patentability.
Alexander Graham Bell.
8 The Patenting Process.
Thomas Edison.
9 Novelty, Infringement, and Other Searches.
George Eastman.
10 Patent Application.
Ottmar Mergenthaler.
11 Claims of a Patent Application.
Nicolaus Otto.
Rudolf Diesel.
12 Prosecution of a Patent Application.
Nikola Tesla.
13 Design Patents.
Herman Hollerith.
14 Protection of Computer-Related Inventions.
Invention Must Set Forth the Subject Matter the Inventor Considers as the Invention.
Hedy Lamarr.
15 Patentability of Biotechnology Inventions.
Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins.
16 Business Method Protection.
Wilbur and Orville Wright.
17 Foreign Patent Protection.
Robert Goddard.
18 Enforcement of the Patent Right.
Charles Kettering.
19 Ownership and Transfer of Patent Rights.
Philo Farnsworth.
20 Employment Contracts and Non-Compete Restrictions.
William Lear.
21 The Engineer and Scientist as Expert Witness; and Ethics.
Luther Burbank.
22 Copyrights as a Vehicle for Technology Protection.
John Bardeen,Walter Brattain, and William Shockley.
23 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA)--An Overview.
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
24 Mask Work Protection.
Federico Faggin, Marcian Hoff, and Stanley Mazor.
25 Trade Secrets.
Stephen Wozniak.
26 Trademarks.
Percy Julian.
27 Cybersquatting.
Current Events.
Bibliography.
Index.
