Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and ScientistsAn excellent text for clients to read before meeting with attorneys so they'll understand the fundamentals of patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, mask work, and unfair competition laws. This is not a "do-it-yourself" manual but rather a ready reference tool for inventors or creators that will generate maximum efficiencies in obtaining, preserving and enforcing their intellectual property rights. It explains why they need to secure the services of IPR attorneys. Coverage includes employment contracts, including the ability of engineers to take confidential and secret knowledge to a new job, shop rights and information to help an entrepreneur establish a non-conflicting enterprise when leaving their prior employment. Sample forms of contracts, contract clauses, and points to consider before signing employment agreements are included. Coverage of copyright, software protection, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as well as the procedural variances in international intellectual property laws and procedures. |
Contents
1 Overview of Intellectual Property Law | 4 |
Cyrus McCormick | 9 |
2 The Use of Intellectual Property in Business | 12 |
Charles Goodyear | 31 |
3 How to Read and Obtain Information from a Modern US Patent | 35 |
George Westinghouse | 47 |
4 Introduction to Patents | 51 |
John Deere | 69 |
15 Patentability of Biotechnology Inventions | 259 |
Rosalind Franklin James Watson Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins | 273 |
16 Business Method Protection | 278 |
Wilbur and Orville Wright | 287 |
17 Foreign Patent Protection | 294 |
Robert Goddard | 301 |
18 Enforcement of the Patent Right | 306 |
Charles Kettering | 317 |
5 Patentable Subject Matter and Utility | 72 |
Alfred Nobel | 75 |
6 NoveltyThe Invention Must Be New | 81 |
Louis Pasteur | 87 |
7 Requirement of NonObviousness for Patentability | 92 |
Alexander Graham Bell | 103 |
8 The Patenting Process | 112 |
Thomas Edison | 129 |
9 Novelty Infringement and Other Searches | 135 |
George Eastman | 141 |
10 Patent Application | 145 |
Ottmar Mergenthaler | 155 |
11 Claims of a Patent Application | 159 |
Nicolaus Otto | 171 |
Rudolf Diesel | 175 |
12 Prosecution of a Patent Application | 180 |
Nikola Tesla | 193 |
13 Design Patents | 203 |
Herman Hollerith | 211 |
14 Protection of ComputerRelated Inventions | 215 |
Hedy Lamarr | 255 |
19 Ownership and Transfer of Patent Rights | 322 |
Philo Farnsworth | 337 |
20 Employment Contracts and NonCompete Restrictions | 350 |
William Lear | 369 |
21 The Engineer and Scientist as Expert Witness and Ethics | 372 |
Luther Burbank | 383 |
22 Copyrights as a Vehicle for Technology Protection | 386 |
John BardeenWalter Brattain and William Shockley | 405 |
23 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 DMCAAn Overview | 412 |
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce | 419 |
24 Mask Work Protection | 425 |
Federico Faggin Marcian Hoff and Stanley Mazor | 429 |
25 Trade Secrets | 432 |
Stephen Wozniak | 443 |
26 Trademarks | 447 |
Percy Julian | 457 |
27 Cybersquatting | 461 |
Current Events | 467 |
Bibliography | 475 |
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