Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property
Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property

Author: Deborah E. BOUCHOUX

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0814426115

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A company’s most valuable assets may not be physical. This book shows how to protect them without fences or security guards!You can’t touch it or feel it. Sometimes you can’t even see it. Yet, intellectual property continues to soar in value, comprising an increasingly greater portion of a typical company’s assets. In the age of instant global communication, understanding what intellectual property is, how to protect it, and how to enhance its value are prerequisites for corporate survival.Enter attorney Deborah E. Bouchoux and her informative book, Protecting Your Company’s Intellectual Property. Packed with fascinating and illuminating examples, this book is a succinct, yet comprehensive discussion of the four key areas of intellectual property: trademarks,copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. In addition to defining these areas (for instance, did you know that customer lists and marketing plans are protectable trade secrets?), the book offers practical tools for protecting intellectual property, including:Trademark and copyright application formsSample employment agreementsAn Internet usage policyTips on preventing unauthorized dissemination of information via the WebA guide for conducting an IP auditAnd much, much more.

Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

Author: Wendy Buskop

Publisher: ISA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781934394533

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Buskop's non-legal style provides easy-to-read guidelines for automation professionals, manufacturers, and business owners who need to protect their ideas and inventions as assets or understand better how to respect the Intellectual Property rights of others.

Protecting Your Business' Intellectual Property
Protecting Your Business' Intellectual Property

Author: Bruce R. Barringer

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2010-08-12

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 0132378906

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501), by Bruce R. Barringer. Available in print and digital formats. Failing to protect your intellectual property can destroy your business. Learn how to keep it from happening to you. Imagine you’ve started a business to produce a new type of smoke alarm specifically for kitchens. It’s similar to other smoke alarms but is more capable of detecting a kitchen fire than any alarm on the market. You’ve named it “Kitchen Sentry.” Your tagline is “We Protect Cooks and Kitchens.” You just acquired the Internet domain name www.kitchensentryfirmalarm.com. Fortunately, while you were developing your product, you....

Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property

Author: Deborah E. Bouchoux

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 9781133134794

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: THE LAW OF TRADEMARKS, COPYRIGHTS, PATENTS, AND TRADE SECRETS, 4E, International Edition is a thorough guide to the four fields of intellectual property law: trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. This comprehensive, yet reader-friendly text helps aspiring and practicing paralegals alike master the complexities of modern intellectual property law, including topics such as registration procedures, duration of rights, protection from infringement, current concerns in each field, and international trends and developments. Now updated in a new Fourth Edition, this wide-ranging text features coverage of cutting-edge issues such as technological innovations, intellectual property in the digital age, the role of the Internet, and evolving business law. In addition to an in-depth overview of each field, the text features abundant practical material, such as sample agreements, forms, checklists of paralegal tasks, charts, citations, statutes, realistic case studies, excerpts of real cases, and interesting trivia to capture students' interest and provide valuable insights into real-world paralegal practice. Additional features useful for paralegal students and professionals include references to intellectual property websites, questions to encourage targeted Internet research, Case Illustrations, Case Study and Activities, Role of Paralegal element, and "Ethics Edge" boxes that explore ethical issues related to chapter content.

Entrepreneur's Guide To Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets
Entrepreneur's Guide To Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets

Author: Gilbert Guide

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-08-03

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1440627762

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Today, virtually all companies, artists, and innovators run the risk of losing their competititve edge-and big money-by not adequately safeguarding their intellectual property. Written by an expert in intellectual property law, this is the first book to address the full range of legal protections available-patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licensing-with innovative information you won't find elsewhere, including: € Legal landmines every successful entrepreneur must avoid € Business practices that can be protected-but are often overlooked € Protecting your intellectual property on the Internet € What are your ideas and the rights to them really worth? € Why trade secrets are a powerful and under-utilized protection € Lessons learned from Amazon.com, Microsoft, and other elite entrepreneurs € How even smart, savvy AOL lost exclusive trademarks, including "YOU'VE GOT MAIL!" The Entrepreneur's Guide to Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets and Licensing is the definitive guide for the entrepreneur and innovator who is ready to protect what he or she has created-a

Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property

Author: Wen De Keesee

Publisher: wil keesee

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1736209566

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Intellectual Property (IP) is the bedrock on which the development of new treatments and cures is built. IP is critical to improving patient care, spurring economic growth and strengthening an innovation economy. The biopharmaceutical industry is directly responsible for more than 850,000 jobs and a total of 4.4 million total jobs (direct, indirect and induced). 7000 new medicines are in development around the world 4,500 industry sponsored clinical trials are currently underway 90% of all clinical trials are led by the biopharmaceutical industry $1.1 TRILLION DOLLARS – total value of goods and services supported by the biopharmaceutical sector. Biotech Stocks are on fire! Potentially 100’s of new little biotech companies will develop new generations of medicines and medical devices while creating vast numbers of new millionaires. The Biotech “Gold Rush” is On! What are you waiting for?

Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property

Author: Deborah E. Bouchoux

Publisher: West Legal Studies

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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This book is an excellent resource for students enrolled in intellectual property (IP) courses as well as IP professionals who have not had formal training in intellectual property law. It is a comprehensive book that addresses the typical tasks encountered by practitioners, combining both substantive knowledge of the law with the practical focus required of IP practitioners. The manuscript is divided into four sections, each devoted to the topics that create intellectual property - trademarks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets. Understanding of each topic is critical to the long-term success of IP professionals, whether they function in law firms, government agencies or in private sector businesses.

Key to IP
Key to IP

Author: Chris Weiss

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781542813952

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In about an hour, you'll learn the language of intellectual property and come out knowing more than 90% of the general public. Just a little longer than The Art of War, but significantly shorter than War and Peace, this book will get you headed in the right direction to protect your great ideas. Through clear visuals and easy to follow examples, you'll quickly understand the most important elements of intellectual property. The lessons you learn in these pages will empower you to recognize new possibilities and turn your ideas into value. This is not a step-by-step guide to filing applications. This is a place to start when you're looking for a primer on identifying intellectual property. And whether you're a CEO or a secretary, work at a Fortune 500 company or work at a start-up, reading this book will prepare you to make meaningful contributions to your business.