This will convince you that there are an abundance of opportunities for liasons - both good and bad. A good place to start in looking for information is Mark Mander's old home page. Fortunately, it was picked up by others at Berkeley and remains on the web. In addition visit Information about patents and patent searching made easy. If one wants to do a search for relevant United States patents, you can do no better than to enter IBM's extensive data base which encodes US patents issued since about 1970.
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And, if you want to see how others view the world of business from the eyes of an advertising genius, consider the life of P. T. Barnum. He records in his book, Struggles and Triumphs - The Life of P. T. Barnum, his Ten Rules for business success. They are as applicable today as they were in the 1860s. As always, one needs to be aware of conditions underwhich we operate. Accordingly, one may want to visit Copyright, Patents and Trademarks, and Disclaimer .