A Guide for Implementing a Patent Strategy
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-25
- Authors:
-
Donald S. Rimai
(Recently retired from Eastman Kodak, where he worked as a researcher and intellectual property manager in digital printing and adhesion science) - ISBN:
- 978-1-119-40710-2
Description:
How Inventors, Engineers, Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Independent Innovators Can Protect Their Intellectual Property
This book is aimed at the innovators who drive the advances from which we all benefit. This includes scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to financially benefit from their innovations. The book describes how to build patent portfolios that will properly protect your technology and be of financial benefit. The tools that innovators need to have to generate patents are presented in detail.
This book is aimed at the innovators who drive the advances from which we all benefit. This includes scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to financially benefit from their innovations. The book describes how to build patent portfolios that will properly protect your technology and be of financial benefit. The tools that innovators need to have to generate patents are presented in detail.
Index
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Background for Developing and Implementing a Patent Strategy
- The Structure of a Patent
- The Path to Obtaining Patents
- Identifying Patentable Inventions
- Identifying What Has Yet to Be Invented
- Prioritizing the Inventions
- Prioritizing Your Patent Applications
- Proposing and Writing Claims
- Conducting Prior Art Searches
- The Mindsets of Innovators and Attorneys and other Cautionary Notes
- Reviewing Your Proposed Patent Applications
- Writing Your Patent Applications
- The Next Step: Prosecution of Your Patent Application
- What Next?
- Final Thoughts
- Appendix 1. Electrophotography: Building a Patent Portfolio in a Mature but Evolving Field