Patent Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers

ISBN-13: 9781138434752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Thomas T. Gordon

Opis

This highly successful book on groupwork practice, first published in 1979, has become a standard introductory text on most social work training courses. It is very popular with social workers, whatever their agency setting, and is also used by health visitors, youth workers and the voluntary sector. This new enlarged and revised third edition includes two new additional chapters. The first of these addresses the issue of groupwork in day and residential centres where special kinds of group skills are required in addition to those already well established for fieldwork groups. The second new chapter attempts to understand the significance of race and gender in groupwork and to begin to develop a framework for anti-discriminatory practice. All key sections from previous editions have been retained and updated, while those on group composition, open groups, co-working and consultation have been extended and revised to give more comprehensive coverage. The bibliography has also been developed to include the most recent additions to the groupwork literature, including many articles from the journal Groupwork for which Allan Brown is co-editor.

Spis treści

Patents as intellectual property. Patents: History, philosophy, and purpose. The U.S. patent system. The Canadian patent system. The patentable invention. The evolution of a patent. The patent document as technical literature The basic principles of patent searching. Patent searching in the 21st century. Patents as legal documents. Patent information from the Internet. Importance of record keeping. Patents around the world. America invents act. Glossary: Words and phrases used in patent terminology. Appendix. Index.

O autorze

Thomas T. Gordon [deceased] worked as a chemist in the pharmaceutical and polymer industries before earning a JD from St. Louis University. Mr. Gordon had over 40 years' experience in the patent field, working in various areas of patent preparation, searching, and prosecution. He conducted patent licensing programs in the United States and Europe and worked for major industrial corporations. He finished his career in private patent practice in the Arlington, Virginia area. Arthur S. Cookfair is a patent agent with more than 45 years' experience in patent law in both corporate and private practice. He has served as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is the author of numerous publications on patents and inventions. Based on his undergraduate work in chemistry and geoscience and graduate work in science and education, Dr. Cookfair has had a varied career as a chemist, educator, and patent practitioner. He has lectured and taught extensively on science and patent law in this country and abroad and has been the recipient of a Fulbright grant. Vincent G. LoTempio is a registered patent attorney with the firm of Kloss, Stenger & LoTempio in Buffalo, New York. His practice focuses on intellectual property matters including patent, trademark, copyright prosecution, and infringement litigation. Mr. LoTempio is a consultant on patent issues to corporate and independent inventors. He has authored articles on patents in the Buffalo Law Journal and Buffalo Business First and he writes weekly articles on intellectual property in his personal LoTempio Law Blog. Also he lectures to businesses and inventors groups on how to identify and protect valuable intellectual property such as patentable subject matter. Brendan S. Lillis is a registered patent attorney. He previously worked as a private software consultant in the he