Take the first step to protecting your invention! Ready to stamp "patent pending" on your invention? Then you need to file a provisional patent application (PPA), an inexpensive way to claim your hard work. With a PPA, you'll have time to figure out whether you can make a profit from your creation before you invest more time and money. With Patent Pending in 24 Hours, you have all the forms and information you need to get the job done! Find out how to evaluate hurdles to patentability, write a clear PPA, prepare informal drawings of your invention, conduct a patent search online, understand basic patent law, complete all forms required by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, file your application and modify your invention after filing. The book also includes important legal forms to help you preserve your rights when showing or selling your invention, including: nondisclosure agreement, patent assignment, prototype-maker agreement and joint-ownership agreement. The 4th edition is completely revised with updated case law and patent regulations, updated filing information and new application examples.

Product Description: 100 years before Kim Keller’s adventures on Aldebaran, Betelgeuse and Antares, a few humans already faced the dangers of an unknown planet. Another chapter of the Worlds of Aldebaran saga!On their way to Aldebaran, a small group of humans is marooned on a strange planet...read more

Product Description: See. Eat. Sleep. Enjoy. A 72-Hour Guide to Tokyo, Japan. City breaks are perfect for those long weekends away. You go to a city and you’ve got only a short amount of time to see the sights, there’s no time to get distracted. But what if you don’t know exactly what to do and see? Which places to eat at? When the best time is to visit? An imperial mix of modern and traditional, from its neon signs to its Shinto shrines, Tokyo is the travel destination for anyone who desires anything but the “same old same...read more

The Law of Patents provides a clear description of the basics of patent law. With this important volume, readers will gain an understanding of how the law protects them and how to obtain that protection. Included are exceptions to patent rules, as well as valuable guidance on how to thoroughly and strategically protect intellectual property. The Legal Almanac series serves to educate the general public on a variety of legal issues pertinent to everyday life and to keep readers informed of their rights and remedies under the law. Each volume in the series presents an explanation of a specific legal issue in simple, clearly written text, making the Almanac a concise and perfect desktop reference tool. All volumes provide state-by-state coverage. Selected state statutes are included, as are important case law and legislation, charts and tables for comparison.

Product Description: As individuals and companies realise the importance of their inventions, issues surrounding patent laws and practices are taking centre stage around the world. Patent Strategy introduces researchers to patent applications and patent portfolios...read more

Product Description: A clear and simple guide to the entire patent process. Do you toil away in an office, garage or basement lab in the hopes of bringing a new widget to life? What will you do when it's alive and kicking? Here's the primer every first-time inventor needs...read more

Product Description: To varying degrees, nations worldwide are at present struggling to meet their obligations under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).This agreement, which to a large extent supersedes all previous international conventions on intellectual property rights, promises to provide virtually global protection against fraud, piracy, and infringement for owners of patents, copyrights, trade marks, and trade secrets -- provided government officials everywhere implement its requirements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The world's bestselling guide to patenting your creation! Have a world-class idea? Ready to protect your invention from copycats? Then turn to the best resource available -- Patent It Yourself. Attorney David Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you determine if you can patent your invention, understand patent law, evaluate the commercial potential of your idea, perform your own patent search, file a provisional patent application, prepare a formal patent application, conduct a patent search online, understand basic patent law, complete all forms required by the U...read more

Explains the dynamics of trademarks and patents to help readers protect business and product names, logos, and slogans, and shows how to create unique names and symbols, as well as register them with the Patent and Trademark Office.

Product Description: Patent Searching Made Easy. Written by inventor David Hitchcock, this book explains step by step how to use an Internet browser to search U.S. patents. It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then, using that classification, find all relevant patents issued within that class...read more

Product Description: The Eighth Edition of Patents and the Federal Circuit covers all Federal Circuit patent opinions reported by BNA through United States Patents Quarterly (Second), Volume 79 (and most in Volume 80), and any other important Federal Circuit decisions handed down through the end of the year 2006...read more

Product Description: 2005 update to Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit, published by BNA Books. The 2005 Cumulative Supplement covers rapidly changing Federal Circuit decisions that are of vital interest to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, including: --the written description and enablement requirements applied in Enzo Biochem v...read more

Product Description: Why is it so important to copyright materials? How is a copyright created? and How is copyrighted work protected on the Internet and in other electronic formats? are among the questions addressed in this survey of copyright law written specifically with the rights of writers in mind...read more

Product Description: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker feierte am 25. September 2006 seinen 80. Geburtstag. Der herausragende Rechtswissenschaftler wurde vor allem mit seinen Arbeiten zum Recht der Telekommunikation und der elektronischen Medien, zu Wettbewerbsrecht und Urheberrecht (intellectual property rights) bekannt...read more

Product Description: Protect your written works, easily and legally! In the Information Age, writers need to take steps to protect their hard work. Fortunately, The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to get the job done. Inside, you'll find the information and forms you need to protect all types of written expression under copyright law...read more

Product Description: The relationship between law and information technology is a highly dynamic one. In the past decade, the European Union has developed an extensive legal framework for new technological developments, with legislation being adopted in the areas of personal data protection, public sector information, conditional access and regulatory transparency...read more

Offers an overview of intellectual property law and explains the protections offered by patents, copyrights, and trademarks. (view table of contents)

Product Description: An updated edition of the standard, comprehensive guide to copyright issues affecting schools, this book provides the watertight copyright policy and plan that's a must for every school district.• Sample logs, record-keeping aids, notices, policies, request letters, forms, and instructional materials• Questions and answers on representative school situations involving copyright, including hot topics like video yearbooks, wikis, and distance learning• A reproducible copyright brochure suitable for school staff • Examples of fair-use analysis• Lists of copyright-cleared media and producers• A comprehensive bibliography, including Internet links related to copyrigh...read more

Product Description: This is the eagerly awaited fourth edition of Philip Grubb's acclaimed book on patent law and practice. It guides the reader through the legal and procedural complexities of the British, European, Japanese and US patent systems, and explains in detail the role of patent practitioners (both in-house and in private practice) in maximising the commercial potential of their client's or company's innovative products...read more

Product Description: A powerful, encyclopedic tool that clarifies the complex language of this rapidly expanding field. The Third Edition of McCarthy’s Desk Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property is a multifaceted practitioner’s guide of first reference...read more

Product Description: The fourth edition of this indispensable guide provides a simple and accurate introduction to the dynamics and mechanics of patent law, updated with the latest court decisions and reform legislation.

Product Description: Great copyright book!

Product Description: The Revised Sixth Edition was comprehensively updated to take account of new judicial, legislative, and scholarly developments in all areas of intellectual property law--trademark, copyright, and patent, and also idea protection, trade secrets, right of publicity, and other areas...read more