Joseph P. Kennedy, Wayne H. Watkins, Elyse N. Ball

Invent and Protect Your Invent

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A straightforward guide to inventing, patenting, and technology commercialization for scientists and engineers

Although chemists, physicists, biologists, polymer scientists, and engineers in industry are involved in potentially patentable work, they are often under-prepared for this all-important field. This book provides a clear, jargon-free, and comprehensive overview of the patenting process tailored specifically to the needs of scientists and engineers, including:
Requirements for a patentable invention
How to invent
New laws created by President Obama's 2011 America Invents Act
The process of applying for and obtaining a patent in the U.S. and in foreign countries
Commercializing inventions and the importance of innovation

Based on lecture notes refined over twenty-five years at The University of Akron, How to Invent and Protect Your Invention contains practical advice, colorful examples, and a wealth of personal experience from the authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781118369371
• ISBN-10: 1118369378
• Artikelnr.: 35456362

Autorenporträt

Kasey Kennedy loves reading books and writing the stories in her head. She has a B.A. in English from Southern Illinois University; is a member of the Chicago Writers Association; Chicago North Romance Writers Association; and a 2021 participant in StoryStudio Chicago's Novel in a Year program.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE: HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE AND FORWHOM IT IS WRITTEN xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix ABBREVIATIONS xxi 1. THE U.S. PATENT SYSTEM 1 1.1. What
is a Patent? 1 1.2. Why Should You File A Patent? 5 2. ORIGINS OF U.S.
PATENT LAW 7 2.1. A Brief History of Patent Law 8 2.2. The Fountainhead:
The Constitution and the U.S. Patent System 9 2.3. Are Patents a Monopoly?
11 3. HOW TO INVENT: INTELLECTUAL ASPECTS OF INVENTING 12 3.1. On the
Definition of Creativity 12 3.2. A Flaw in Patent Law 13 3.3. Patentable
Creativity 14 3.4. Intellectual Requirements of Inventing 15 3.5. The
Process and Product of Inventing 16 3.6. Pioneering versus Mediocre
Inventions: The Touch of the Expert 17 3.7. The Importance of Industrial
Experience 17 3.8. The Ultimate Goal: Innovation 18 4. A SHORT SUMMARY OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 20 4.1. Patents 21 4.2. Trade Secrets 21 4.3.
Copyrights 22 4.4. Trademarks and Servicemarks 23 4.5. Other Types of
Intellectual Property 24 5. REQUIREMENTS OF PATENTABILITY 26 5.1. What is
Patentable? 26 5.2. Patentable and NonPatentable Subject Matter 27 5.3. The
Three Classes of Patents 28 5.4. The First Law of Inventing 28 5.5. The
Second Law of Inventing 44 5.6. The Structure of the Patent Document 48 6.
HOW DOES THE PATENT PROCESS WORK? 55 6.1. The Notebook 56 6.2. The
Provisional Patent Application 56 6.3. The (Regular or Nonprovisional)
Patent Application 58 6.4. Prosecution: Convincing the Patent Examiner 60
6.5. Continuation, Continuation-in-Part, and Divisional Applications 64
6.6. Allowance and Issuance 68 6.7. Loss of Patent Rights 68 6.8.
Challenges and Changes to Issued Patents 69 6.9. Summary of Chapters 5 and
6 73 7. INFRINGEMENT AND FREEDOM TO OPERATE 74 7.1. The Parable of the
Knife 75 7.2. Types of Infringement 77 7.3. Infringement Suits 79 7.4. When
to Sue an Infringer 80 7.5. Freedom to Operate 80 7.6. Prior Commercial Use
Rights 82 8. BIOTECHNOLOGY, COMPUTER SOFTWARE, AND BUSINESS METHOD PATENTS
84 8.1. Biology Meets Patents 85 8.2. Computer Software Patents 89 8.3.
Business Method Patents 90 9. WHO IS THE INVENTOR? 91 9.1. Conceiving an
Inventive Idea 92 9.2. Joint Inventors 93 9.3. Naming Inventors on Patent
Applications 95 9.4. Qualifications to Be an Inventor 95 10. OWNERSHIP 96
10.1. Selling, Licensing and Assigning Patents 97 10.2. Hired-to-Invent and
Shop Rights 97 10.3. Inventing on Your Own Time 98 10.4. Non-Compete
Agreements 98 10.5. The Bayh-Dole Act 99 11. TRANSLATING IDEAS INTO
ECONOMIC REWARD 102 11.1. The Costs of Patenting 102 11.2. Assessment 104
11.3. Selling and Licensing a Patent 110 11.4. Start-Ups, Spin-Outs, and
Joint Ventures 112 11.5. Patenting and Marketing Departments; Technology
Transfer Offices 113 11.6. Patent Valuation 114 12. FOREIGN PATENTS 116
12.1. Distinctive Features of U.S. Patent Law 117 12.2. The International
Patent Cooperation Treaty 118 12.3. The European Patent Union 120 12.4.
Other Foreign Patent Practices 121 12.5. Enforcing Patents Abroad 123 12.6.
Choosing Whether to File a Foreign Patent Application 124 13. INNOVATION
125 13.1. Innovation Is More Than Invention 125 13.2. What Drives
Innovation 126 13.3. The Law of Innovation 126 13.4. Companies and
Innovation 127 13.5. The Innovation and Job Creation Relationship 127 13.6.
Discovery Push versus Market Pull Innovation 128 13.7. Incremental versus
Disruptive Innovation 128 13.8. Sources of Innovation 129 13.9. Innovation
and Public Policy 129 14. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS 131 14.1. Is the Patent
System Worth the Costs? 131 14.2. The Patent System Leads to Additional
Research and Knowledge Creation 133 14.3. Fostering Competition 134 14.4.
Results of Ignorance of the Patent System 135 14.5. How Law and Technology
Yield Patents 136 APPENDIX 1: IMPORTANT FORMS 139 APPENDIX 2:
SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS 177 GLOSSARY 196 INDEX 209

Rezensionen

"The book will be useful to graduate students, as well as educators, business professionals, non-patent attorneys, and engineers who want to learn about the role that patents play in turning inventions into socially benefi cial products." (Chemical Engineering Progress, 1 May 2013)

"Introducing an easy-to-read, jargon-free overview of the patent application process for scientists and engineers: How to Invent and Protect Your Invention: A Guide to Patents for Scientists and Engineers published by Wiley, is updated with the most recent changes to U.S. patent law that were made in Fall 2011." (Physorg, 27 November 2012)