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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Basic Intellectual Property Concepts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Patent Law Concepts | |
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| Patent Office Operations | |
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| Requirements for Obtaining a Patent | |
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| Types of Patents | |
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| Parts of a Patent | |
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| The Term of a Patent | |
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| Definitions of Commonly Used Terms | |
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| International Treaties | |
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| The Paris Convention | |
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| Inter-American Convention | |
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| The Patent Cooperation Treaty | |
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| The European Patent Convention | |
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| The African Intellectual Property Organization | |
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| The African Regional Industrial Property Organization | |
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| Eurasian Patent Convention | |
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| Copyrights, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets | |
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| Copyrights | |
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| Trademarks | |
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| Trade Secrets | |
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| Other Resources | |
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| The Value of Patents | |
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| Exclusivity--The Desired Goal | |
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| The Mechanics of Achieving Exclusivity in a Technology Area | |
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| Traps and Misconceptions--What Patents Can't Do | |
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| The Informational Value of Patents | |
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| Assigning Value to Patents | |
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| Licensing of Patents | |
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| Developing a Strategy | |
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| Professional Help | |
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| Determining Whether or Not an Invention is Patentable | |
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| Defining Strategy | |
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| The Principles Behind the Strategy - The Military Model | |
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| Developing a Patent Strategy Model | |
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| Questions for Specific Types of Strategies | |
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| Developing a Patent Strategy for an Invention | |
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| Developing a Patent Strategy for a Series of Inventions | |
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| Developing a Patent Strategy for an Existing Product | |
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| Developing a Strategy for Licensing Products | |
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| Developing a Strategy for Handling a Potentially Adverse Patent | |
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| Developing a Strategy for Oddball Inventions | |
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| Dealing With Inventors When Patent Applications Are Not Filed | |
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| Coordination of Other Strategies and Patent Strategy | |
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| Researching With Intellectual Property in Mind | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Characteristics of Prolific Inventors | |
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| Characteristics of Casual Inventors | |
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| The Inventive Process | |
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| Fostering Inventive Activity | |
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| Suggestions On How to Conduct Research for Stronger Patents | |
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| Infringement and Freedom to Operate | |
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| Types of Infringement | |
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| Avoiding Patent Infringement | |
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| Dealing With Infringers | |
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| Research Disclosures and Journal Articles | |
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| Published Patent Applications and Provisional Patent Coverage | |
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| Working With Attorneys, Agents, and Liaisons | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preparing for the Legal World | |
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| Actions to Take Before Meeting With the Agent | |
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| Typical Working Arrangements with Agents | |
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| The Researchers' Responsibility for Technical Details | |
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| Aloofness | |
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| Experimentation For the Patent Application | |
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| Patent Liaisons and Other Intellectual Property Professionals | |
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| Disclosure and Filing Decisions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Controlling the Disclosure of Technology | |
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| The Filing Decision | |
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| Filing Globally | |
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| The Cost of Broadly Filed Patent Applications | |
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| The Legal Systems of Individual Countries | |
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| Techniques for Determining Which Countries Will be of Value | |
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| World Growth and Economic Power | |
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| Templates | |
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| Timing of Application Filings | |
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| Global Experts | |
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| Agreement With Strategy | |
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| After the Filing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Anticipating the First Response From a Patent Office | |
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| Modification of Claims | |
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| Research After the Filing | |
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| Maintaining Cohesion | |
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| Issuance and Maintenance of Patents | |
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| The Future of Intellectual Property Efforts | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |