2011 Reprint of 1997 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Designed specifically for non-attorneys and written in clear, easy to understand English, this guide from the United States Patent and Trademark Office guides readers through the registration process step by step, beginning with general information about the functions of the Patent and Trademark Office, how to obtain a patent, the process of registering patents, and much other useful information.

The nose-to-nose calibration technique 1-4] was proposed in 1990 to determine the impulse response of broadband oscilloscopes. Finding and correcting the response of these high-speed oscilloscopes is important because the typical response time of their internal sampling circuitry is of the same order as the signal transitions of many highspeed circuits under test. To measure the amplitude response of broadband (defined here as 20 GHz or greater) sampling oscilloscopes, we currently use the "swept-sine" method 2, 5], where a series of individual tones of increasing frequency and known power...

This Special Publication summarizes the certification procedure for a new generation of silicon resistivity Standard Reference Materials 2541 through 2547.

The Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program was developed by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a result of interest from private industry at the request of the National Conference of Standards Laboratories.

Laboratory6One of NIST's Measurement and Standards Laboratories, the Electronics and ElectricalEngineering Laboratory (EEEL) conducts research, provides measurement services, and helps set standards in support of: the fundamental and practical physicalstandards and measurement services for electrical quantities; the fundamentalelectronic technologies of semiconductors, magnetics, and superconductors;information and communications technologies, such as fiber optics, photonics, microwaves, electronic displays, and electronics manufacturing supply chaincollaboration; forensics and security...

What is a trademark or service mark? A trademark is generally a word, phrase, symbol, or design, or a combination thereof, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others. A service mark is the same as a trademark, except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than goods. Throughout this booklet, the terms "trademark" and "mark" refer to both trademarks and service marks."

In 2007, I estimate that playwrights, artists, photographers and designers created miscellaneous artwork worth $3.3 billion. By category, theatrical play scripts were $1.4 billion, greeting card designs were $0.5 billion and commercial stock photography was $1.4 billion. Taken individually, each of the entertainment categories described earlier are too small to examine in a single paper. Therefore, I combine all three categories into a single paper. These diverse categories of artwork will earn revenue for their creators for decades to come. Because of their long working life, the...

The United States is an increasingly attractive location for business investment from global companies. In AT Kearney's 2013 FDI Confidence Index, the United States surged past countries like China, Brazil and India to become the country with the top FDI prospects globally, as ranked by 302 companies representing 28 countries and multiple industry sectors. This marks the first time that the US occupied the #1 spot in the survey since 2001. In a survey of U.S. manufacturers with production abroad late last year, BCG found that the majority (54 percent) are looking at re-shoring to the United...