Patent Empowerment for Small Corporations

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M. Henry Heines

Book Code: Q452

ISBN: 1-56720-452-X

ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-452-0

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240 pages

Quorum Books

Publication: 8/30/2001

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Small corporations are the leading forces in the development of new technologies, and patents are their most important assets. The role of patents in joint ventures, funding, marketing, and the strategic alliances that help small corporations grow and prosper is inestimable. Heines' book offers executives in small, rising corporations an in-depth, practical, useful comprehension of the patent system--the knowledge they need to understand, and work with, professional patent attorneys. With detailed examples and scenarios to illustrate legal principles, and with forms and advice to help develop a corporate patent strategy, the book provides critical information accessibly in a comprehensible manner and without dangerous, naive oversimplification. It will quickly prove useful to corporate decision makers and to academics teaching small business methods and management. Among the book's special features is its focus on the perspective, interests, and special needs of small corporations, and its abundance of various hypothetical technology scenarios, illustrating the legal principles that Heines dissects and analyzes. Another special feature is the balance it strikes between thouroughness and clarity: it gives a lot of information but in a way that non-attorneys can easily understand. Heines explains and illustrates the principles of patent law and describes how to organize and implement an internal patent policy. He goes on to show how to accommodate patenting with ongoing research, how to maintain patent rights while working with outside vendors, how to distinguish between patenting and freedom-to-operate, and how to react and respond to the patents of competitors. Also addressed are the small corporation's need to control costs and ways to make patenting decisions in a manner that will provide maximum flexibility in deciding when and where to patent without relinquishing organizational control.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Developing a Patent Portfolio
Patent Applications and Related Documents Accepted by the USPTO
Basics of Patent Ability in the United States
Are We Covered?--Patent Claims and Claiming Strategy
Infringement: The Reach of a Patent
Using the Corporation's Own Technology--Freedom to Operate
Foreign Filing--Applying for Patents Outside the United States
When Patents Conflict: Interferences
Confronting the Invalid Patent
Taking Care of Business--Integrating a Patent Policy into Routine Business Operations
Inventorship and Ownership of Patents
Trade Secrets, Trademarks and Copyrights
Searching
Due Diligence

LC Card Number: 2001018062

LCC Class: KF3114

Dewey Class: 346


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