A Guide for Implementing a Patent Strategy : How Inventors, Engineers, Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Independent Innovators Can Protect Their Intellectual Property.

This book is aimed at the innovators who drive the advances from which we all benefit. This includes scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to financially benefit from their innovations. The book describes how to build patent portfolios that will properly protect yo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rimai, Donald S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018.
Subjects:	Patent laws and legislation > United States. Patents > Economic aspects > United States. LAW > Intellectual Property > General. Patent laws and legislation Patents > Economic aspects United States
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover; Tilte Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Background for Developing and Implementing a Patent Strategy; Why Should You be Seeking Patents?; Why Should an Employed Scientist or Engineer Seek to Obtain Patents?; Why Should Entrepreneurs and Companies Seek to Build Patent Portfolios?; Why Should the Independent Innovator Build a Patent Portfolio?; What is a Patent?; What is an Invention?; Why Do I Need a Patent Strategy?; As a Technical Innovator, What Do You Need to Do?; Why Do Technical Team Members Need to Do This? Is this not for Legal Counsel to Do?
Determine What Your Competitors Are DoingFile on the Patentable Enabling Technology; Concluding Comments; References; 5 Identifying What Has Yet to Be Invented; Introduction; Expanding Electrophotographic Printing into New Applications; Lessons Imparted; When Developing Technology in Conjunction with others; Concluding Remarks; References; 6 Prioritizing the Inventions; What Does Prioritizing Inventions Mean?; Why is it Necessary to Prioritize Inventions?; How to Prioritize Inventions; Concluding Remarks; References; 7 Prioritizing Your Patent Applications
What is the Difference between Prioritizing Inventions and Prioritizing Patent Applications?Types of Factors Determining Patent Application Priority; Technological Considerations; Temporal Considerations; Concluding Remarks; References; 8 Proposing and Writing Claims; Why Should Inventors Write Claims?; Do You Have More than a Single Invention?; Types of Claims and Inventions; Concluding Remarks; References; 9 Conducting Prior Art Searches; Introduction; Types of Prior Art Searches; Clearance Searches; Novelty Searches; The Impact of KSR on Novelty Searches; Methods of Conducting a Search
Key Word SearchesEnhancing Searches; Search Engines; The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; European Patent Offi ce; World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Google Patents/Google Scholar; Innography; Concluding Remarks; References; 10 The Mindsets of Innovators and Attorneys and other Cautionary Notes; Communications; Of Differing Mindsets; Cautionary Notes; Be Careful About What You Write; Validity of a Patent is a Legal Question; Attorney-Client Privilege; Patents are Very Specific; Solving a Different Problem from that Described in the Prior Art; Consider Using a Patent Engineer

A Guide for Implementing a Patent Strategy : How Inventors, Engineers, Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Independent Innovators Can Protect Their Intellectual Property.

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