Patents, Copyrights And Trademarks For Dummies : 2nd Edition

Patents, Copyrights And Trademarks For Dummies : 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780470339459
Publication Date: 25 July 2008

Useful tips and step-by-step guidance from filing to issue to license

Acquire and protect your share of this major business asset

Want to secure and exploit the intellectual property rights due you or your company? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how - helping you to evaluate your idea's commercial potential, conduct patent and trademark searches, document the invention process, license your IP rights, and comply with international laws. Plus, you get detailed examples of each patent application type!

Discover how to:

- Avoid application blunders

- Register trademarks and copyrights

- Meet patent requirements

- Navigate complex legal issues

- Protect your rights abroad

- The entire body of U.S. patent laws

- Example office actions and amendments

- Sample forms

- Trademark registration certificates

- Application worksheets

See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

About The Authors:

Henri Charmasson is an attorney with a 35-year career in the field of intellectual property (IP) law. He has been a naming adviser to major corporations. Henri is also an inventor with his name on 15 U.S. patents and an entrepreneur who sits on the board of several small business corporations. In his early engineering career, Henri designed computer hardware. Henri has authored several articles and delivered lectures on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret topics, and written an authoritative treatise about the art of naming compani...