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