In a world where your intellectual property is your most valuable asset, patents are becoming an essential tool for achieving and maintaining a competitive edge. With billions of dollars at stake, companies are defending their patents vigorously; high-profile cases, such as Microsoft's $900 million patent dispute settlement with Sun Microsystems, and Medtronic's acquisition of a competitor's entire patent portfolio for $1.35 billion, are cases in point. While most companies will not operate at this level, the strategic management of patents, and the costs of enforcing and defending them,...
In a world where your intellectual property is your most valuable asset, patents are becoming an essential tool for achieving and maintaining a com...
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...
Small corporations are the leading forces in the development of new technologies, and patents are their most important assets. The role of patents ...
Bridges the gap between the realistic needs and questions of scientists and engineers and the legal skills of professionals in the patent field at a level accessible to those with no legal training - Written for inventors in lay terms that they can relate to or easily follow - Lays out the new features of patent law introduced by the America Invents Act of 2012 - Explains the differences between the first-to-invent and first-to-file rules and why the two rules will coexist - Focuses on the growth of new technologies in industry versus the laws protecting them
Bridges the gap between the realistic needs and questions of scientists and engineers and the legal skills of professionals in the patent field at a l...
