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IP & Trademark Related Book List
Protecting Your Ideas: The Inventor's Guide to Patents
Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Intellectual property law is currently exploding, as demonstrated by the growth of technology transfer offices in universities. More and more scientists, companies, and institutions are rushing to secure intellectual property rights for their ideas and inventions. This process frustrates many people; patent laws are constantly changing, and most books about them are either overly technical or boring.
Protecting Your Ideas: The Inventor's Guide to Patents is a succinct, straightforward guide to the system. This guide presents the steps involved in obtaining patent protection for inventions. It is easy to read and brimming with essential information and advice compounded from FAQs posed by the author's academic and industrial clientele. The text includes tips, warnings, and examples that guide the reader through the invention process so patent rights are not jeopardized. Checklists and other helpful information are provided to assist the inventor preparing to enter the patent process. The book includes valuable resource information and business guidance to protect the inventor from consumer fraud that is sometimes associated with the patent process. Protecting and Idea is a must read for every engineer, scientist, or amateur inventor.
Key Features
* Simple, easy-to-read format demystifies the patent process
* Numerous example patents help to illustrate the issues involved
* Provides an overview of the types of intellectual property protection
* Incorporates up-to-date information about U.S. patent laws
* Advises inventors about the do's and don'ts of patenting
* Includes useful resources for helping inventors safeguard their ideas
Customer Reviews:
Review #1: helpful guide on patents
2001-04-04 
One of the most complete and up-to-date books for inventors is _Protecting_ by Mrs Bryant, who is a patent agent. After distinguishing patents from copyrights and trade secrets, she outlines a roadmap for inventors and identifies many of the pitfalls likely to be encountered. As a collateral benefit, she also summarizes the process for initiating foreign applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The intended audience is predominantly engineers (both regarding personal inventions and those assigned to their employers) with suggestions on documentation and diligence along with expected costs, but patent agents and attorneys can also benefit from the overview on statutory intent and court interpretation. The figures showing the relevant forms are an added benefit. One unintentionally amusing comment was her observation that "many lawyers" do not satisfy the requirements to register before the US Patent & Trademark Office. Actually, only a tiny handful of attorneys qualify to formally prosecute patent applications (although registration is not needed for litigation or licensing, and in fairness the author probably means "intellectual property" lawyers of whom patent attorneys are a subset). Hopefully a revised edition will address publication of patent applications from the American Inventors Protection Act and the impact of _Festo_v._Shoketsu_ on the Doctrine of Equivalents - both developing after the book's publication - as well as correct the assertion that PTO registration is available only from passing the (rather difficult) patent exam - the alternative method is to work as a patent examiner. Otherwise, _Protecting_ presents a valuable and recommended resource to engineers and scientists.
Review #2: Great Primer on IP law
2000-06-28
Too many lay people and even legal professionals have no idea about the differences between patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Joy Bryant's work, in addition to outlining the patent process, provides a clear explanation of the various kinds of intellectual property law in general. This book is a "must" read for general practice attorneys who want to point their clients in the right direction for answers to IP questions. It is also a great tool for patent attorneys to use to educate their clients on the process of obtaining a patent.
Review #3: Information Every Scientist/Engineers Can Use
2000-01-05
Tremendous resource for scientists and other geeks. Succinct read. Answers the FAQs: 'What is a patent?', , 'Who can I turn to for help?', 'Are there special patent libraries for researching my ideas?', 'How do I search the technical/patent literature?', 'What are claims?', 'I can't afford to patent, how can I still protect my idea?'Like the numerous tips & checklists -- very helpful!
Review #4: Useful book with concrete examples on how to protect IP
1999-05-17 
This book has been extremely helpful to me in learning about the patent process. Each step in obtaining a patent is clearly described and common pitfalls are pointed out so they can be avoided. Each chapter provides concrete examples that summarize the material just covered and presents the information in a way that is easy to understand. As an engineer concerned with protecting IP, I have found this book invaluable.
Review #5: The book is a great help in getting ideas protected.
1999-05-14
Descriptions of what can be protected and the mechanisms for filing the proper documents is a great help. The book gives lots of examples and is clearly written for anyone wishing to protect their ideas. |
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