Inventor's Guide to Trademarks and Patents, The

This is the complete guide to intellectual property: thinking concepts for discovering it, creating it, protecting it, and profiting from it.
Whether you're an individual inventor or an innovator inside a small-medium business or large enterprise, you need a deep, business-focused understanding of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, trade secrets, and the entire invention process. In this book, Craig Fellenstein teaches his own critical techniques that have helped him to earn several patents.
Drawing on his expertise in mentoring invention and patent teams, Fellenstein introduces best practices for managing the process of creating and, protecting, intellectual property.
Coverage includes

• How inventors think: a complete case study teaching how to conceptualize ideas for new patentable inventions--causing discovery of new patent ideas
• Validating your invention's uniqueness: critical skills, practical search tools, and the principles of "prior art"
• Refining and strengthening your inventions
• Preparing patents that professional evaluators will view favorably
• Multiple submissions: discovering and filing for follow-on patents that flow from your original ideas
• Getting a strong patent that will be more likely to withstand any potential challenges after issuance
• Establishing effective incentives for the creation of new intellectual property
• Harvesting and commercializing inventions: practical lessons for inventors
• Using "invention teams" to systematize and accelerate the innovation process
• Different ways to protect your intellectual property: patents, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, and copyrights

List of contents

Preface.
1. Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks-A Look Back.
    The History of Inventions
    An Example of an Early Patent
    A Timeline of Inventions
    The History of Copyrights
      American Copyright Law Was First Seen in the Copyright Act of 1790
      1787: U.S. Constitution
      1790: Copyright Act of 1790
      1831: Revision of the Copyright Act
      1834: Wheaton v. Peters
      1841: Folsom v. Marsh
      1853: Stowe v. Thomas
      1870: Revision of the Copyright Act
      1886: Berne Convention
      1891: International Copyright Treaty
      1909: Revision of the U.S. Copyright Act
      1973: Williams and Wilkins Co. v. United States
      1976: Revision of the U.S. Copyright Act
      1976: Classroom Guidelines
      1976: CONTU Process
      1983: Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp. v. Crooks
      1986: Maxtone-Graham v. Burtchaell
      1987: Salinger v. Random House
      1988: Berne Convention
      1990: Circulation of Computer Software
      1991: Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko's Graphics Corp.
      1991: Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Inc.
      1992: American Geophysical Union v. Texaco
      1992: Amendment to Section 304 of Title 17
      1993: Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Frena
      1993: NII Initiative
      1994: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc.
      1994: Working Group's Green Paper
      1994: CONFU
      1995: Religious Technology Center v. Netcom
      1995: Release of the White Paper
      1996: TRIPS Agreement
      1996: Database Protection Legislation
      1996: Princeton University Press, MacMillan Inc., and St. Martin's Press v. Michigan Document Services, Inc., and James Smith
      1996: World Intellectual Property Organization
      1998: Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
      1998: Digital Millenium Copyright Act
      1999: Bender v. West Publishing Co.
      1999: UCITA Passed by NCCUSL
      1999: Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999
      2000: Virginia Passed UCITA
      2000: Librarian of Congress Issued Ruling on DMCA
      2000: Register.com v. Verio
      2001: Greenberg v. National Geographic Society
      2001: New York Times v. Tasini
      2001: Russian Programmer Arrested for Copyright Circumvention
      2001: State Sovereign Immunity
      2002: Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (S. 2048) Introduced in Senate
      2002: ABA Issues UCITA Report
      2002: U.S. Supreme Court Hears Challenge to 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act
2002: Senate Approves Distance Education Legislation
      Additional Reading on Copyrights
      Web Resources on Copyrights
    The History of Trademarks
2. Formulating the Idea.
    Ideas: Are They Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, or Engineering Innovations?
      Copyrights
      Patents
      Trademarks
      Trade Secrets
      Engineering Innovations
    Problem, Solution, and Novelty and Uniqueness Test
    Think Beyond Those “Skilled in the Art”
    Management of Innovation
3. Search Strategies, Techniques, and Search Tools to Validate the Uniqueness of Any Invention.
    Search Engines
      Identify Keywords
      Boolean AND
      Boolean OR
      Boolean AND NOT
      Implied Boolean: Plus and Minus Signs
      Phrase Searching
      Plural Forms, Capital Letters, and Alternate Spellings
      Field Search
      Domain Search
      Link Search
    Performing a “Search” in Five Easy Steps
      Step 1: State What You Want to Find
      Step 2: Identify the Keywords
      Step 3: Select Synonyms and Variant Word Forms
      Step 4: Combine Synonym, Keywords, and Variant Word forms
      Step 5: Check Your Spelling
    Meta-Search Engines
    Specialty Databases
    U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office Search Example
      An Example of a U.S. “Prior Art” Search Site
      A Simple Prior Art Search
      An Advanced Prior Art Search
      The Actual Prior Art Search and Evaluation
      Understanding the Patent Abstract
      Apparatus and Method for Blocking Television Commercials and Providing an Archive Interrogation Program
      Determine if There Is Prior Art-Using Several Real Examples
      Apparatus and Method for Blocking Television Commercials and Displaying Alternative Programming
      Invent Around the Prior Art While Strengthening Your Idea
      Apparatus and Method of Searching for Desired Television Content
      Record Keeping and Invention Strengthening
      The Illustration Pages
      Web Sources for Conducting Patent Searches
      Patent Law links
4. Invention Teams.
    Invention Team Core Members and Objectives
      The Leadership Team
      The Technical Writers/Technology Specialists
      Patent Defense Members
    Invention Team Processes
    Inventor Mentoring and Strengthening of Ideas
5. Invention Evaluation Teams.
    How to Start an Invention Evaluation Team
    Evaluation Team Roles and Responsibilities
      Inventor and Evaluator Interactions
      Inventor's Protocol
      Evaluator's Protocol
      Guidance on Secrecy Practices for Patents
      A1-1. Patent Applications and Government Security
      A1-2. A Secrecy Order Is Needed When the Application Includes Certain Items
      A1-3. A Secrecy Order Is not Needed When the Application Includes Certain Items
      A1-4. As an Expert in the Technical Area, the Review Should Provide the Following Recommendations
      A1-5. Some Clarifications Related to Secrecy Orders
      Intellectual Property Asset Commercialization
      Shanghai's Intellectual Property Asset Evaluation System and It's Growth
      China's Growth in Intellectual Property Areas
6. Defining a Patent: The Problem, Solution, and Novelty.
    The Skill of Problem Identification
    The Skills of Solution Development
    The Skills of Novelty Harvesting
      What Are Claims?
    Idea Farming
7. Mining Intellectual Property Assets.
    How to Articulate Multiple Related Problems
    How to Articulate Multiple Solutions for Multiple Problems
8. Intellectual Property.
    Patents
      Definition: Patent
    Copyright
      Definition: Copyright
    Trademarks
      Definition: Trademark
    For More Information on Intellectual Property
      Selected References
9. Property Protection: Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Patents, and Publishing Intellectual Property.
    The Value of a Copyright, and How to Initiate It
    The Value of a Trademark (and Service Mark), and How to Initiate It
      International Trademark Association (INTA)
      The INTA Mission
    The Trade Secret and How to Exercise Control
    The Patent and How to Initiate It
    The Significance of Publishing Intellectual Property
    The Considerations of Intellectual Property Protection
      Intellectual Property in Simple Terms
      Responsible Protection of Intellectual Property
      Is Your Intellectual Property Secure?
      Offensive and Defensive Security Measures
    More Reading
Appendix 1.
Appendix 2.
Appendix 3.
Index.

About the author

About the Author
Craig Fellenstein, IBM Network Services Senior Executive Consultant, currently participates on several IBM Patent Evaluation teams. He holds 22 patents pending in the U.S. Patents Office, and 13 inventions publications in Journals for IBM. Fellenstein formerly served as IBM Global Services Integrated Technology Services Chief Architect and Senior Executive Consultant, working with leading IBM customers worldwide.

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Product details

• Authors: Craig Fellenstein, Rachel Ralston, Jaclyn Vassallo
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780131463837
• ISBN: 978-0-13-146383-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 660 g
• Series: Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Marketing, Patent, Patentrecht