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With the growing imperative to identify alternative (internal) sources of revenue, corporate shareholders, managers, and senior executives are aware of the critically important value of patents to the bottom line. To achieve these objectives, now more than ever companies must implement a patent-centric management process. This book introduces a new methodology that provides a hands-on implementation process, guiding every level of corporate manager, from CEO on down, through the establishment of...

Intellectual Property (IP) covers all rights that are generated by one's creative intellectual efforts. Being intangible, intellectual property has no material existence but is, nevertheless, a valuable asset with substantial commercial value. With the knowledge gleaned from Intellectual Property for Integrated Circuits, integrated circuit (IC) designers will possess a substantial understanding of the numerous forms of intellectual property and their underlying laws and governing principles to e...

Patentrecht, Markenrecht und Designschutz bilden einen Bereich, der ständigem Wandel unterworfen ist. Selbst für Spezialisten ist es zur Herausforderung geworden, Rechte und Forschungsergebnisse zu schützen in einem internationalen Umfeld, das täglich komplexer wird. Basierend auf dem 1991 erschienenen erfolgreichen Werk "Patentbegriffe von A bis Z" und ergänzt um ein dreisprachiges Fachwortverzeichnis, führt das hoch vernetzte Glossar durch den Dschungel der Begrifflichkeiten und berücksichti...

How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers’ rights, and the public interest. Over the past decade, legal challenges have arisen in the Global South over patents on genetically modified crops. In this ethnographic study, Karine E. Peschard explores the effects of these disputes on people’s lives, while uncovering the role of power—material, institutional, and discursive—in shaping laws and legal systems. The expansio...

Starting with the 13th century, this book explores how patents have been used as an economic protectionist tool, developing and evolving to the point where thousands of patents have been ultimately granted not over inventions, but over isolated or purified biological materials. DNA, invented by no man and once thought to be 'free to all men and reserved exclusively to none', has become cartelised in the hands of multinational corporations. The author questions whether the continuing grant of pat...

Fully revised new edition that completely covers intellectual property law-and many related issues-for engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs This book informs engineering and science students, technology professionals, and entrepreneurs about the intellectual property laws that are important in their careers. It covers all of the major areas of intellectual property development and protection in non-legalistic terms that are understandable to technology and science professionals. New material...

Whether you're an individual inventor or an innovator inside a small to 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 have over 65 patent applications filed. Drawing on his expertise in mentoring invention and patent teams, Fellenstein introduces...

The Routledge Handbook of EU Copyright Law provides a definitive survey of copyright harmonization in the European Union, capturing the essential and relevant issues of this relatively recent phenomenon. Over the past few years, two themes have emerged: on the one hand, copyright policy and legislative initiatives have intensified; on the other hand, the large number of references to the Court of Justice of the European Union has substantially shaped the EU copyright framework and, with it, the...