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Books to Protect Your Ideas & Inventions
Protect Your Intellectual Property provides an abundance of information on the various forms of intellectual property protection. It explains in detail, step-by-step procedures, how to obtain exclusive protection for unique ideas, inventions, names, identifying marks, or artistic, literary, musical, photographic or cinematographic works.
You can now have available valuable facts and information on intellectual property protection at your fingertips. The material and instructions in this book will save unnecessary expense and time-consuming research. The information is organized to provide fast comprehension, so that it may be implemented immediately. Forms are included for Federal copyright, patent, and trademark registration.
The subject of intellectual property protection is extensive. The purpose of this book is to simplify the process of securing a copyright, patent, or trademark in most countries where protection would be beneficial. The information disclosed here will be useful to know even before embarking on any creative endeavor that you hope someday will find its way into the marketplace. Most ideas developed for maximum commercial value will need to be legally protected for encroachment and undesirable imitation. Writers, designers, artists, photographers, inventors, composers, musicians, performers, and many others can now get regional, national, or international protection for their creations.
This book is divided into five parts. Part 1 discusses copyrights, Part 2 covers patents, Part 3 details Federal trademarks and seven key areas of state trademarks. Part 4 is an international whirlwind tour of copyrights, patents, and trademarks, including a country-by-country profile of over 60 foreign lands form Algeria to Zambia. Part 5 provides valuable contacts, sources of additional information, and suggested publications. All forms have been placed at the end of the appropriate part.
Hoyt L. Barber has a diverse business background covering 25 years in product development, corporate and product identity development, intellectual property protection licensing, product marketing and promotion in the capacity as marketing director, corporate executive and company owner.
As a leading expert on offshore tax havens and international finance, Barber has over the past ten years acted as an international financial consultant to clients worldwide. He is author of numerous business books.
Robert M. Logan is a practicing U.S. attorney with extensive knowledge in protecting intellectual property. He knows what is involved in obtaining patents, copyrights and trademarks on a worldwide basis and shares this knowledge with you in this very comprehensive book.
The authors provide you with all the essentials for protecting your intellectual property worldwide.
PART 1: COPYRIGHTS
Categories of Copyright Protection - When Does Copyright Begin?
Benefits of Registration - The New Copyright Law - Publication
Copyright Notice - Notice for Phonorecords of Sound Recordings
Description of Copyrights for Various Works
Automated Databases, Architectural Works, Cartoons and Comic Strips,
Computer Programs, Drama, Games, Visual Arts, Mask Works, Motion
Pictures and Video Recordings, Multimedia Works, Poetry, Musical
Composition and Sound Recordings, Serials
National Origin of the Work
Deposit Requirements - The Copyright Applicant - Filing the Application
Failure to Publish the Copyright Notice
Instructions for Completion of Copyright Forms
Copyright Office Information & Forms
The Invention Record
Plant Patent Drawing
Additional Sources of Art Supplies
Doing Business with the Patent Office
Utility Patent - Design Patent - Plant Patent
Special Boxes for Mail
Patent Fees and Payment
Example of a U.S. Patent
PART 3: TRADEMARKS
The Trademark and the Corporate Identity
The Principal and Supplemental Registers
Marks Registerable on the Principal Register - Registerable Service
Marks - Registerable Collective and Certification Marks - Use by Related
Companies - Certificates - Duration - Renewal - Assignment -
Publication - Opposition - Cancellation- The Supplemental Register -
Trademark Agents and Counsellors
"Token" Use
Instruction for Completion. of the Federal Trademark Application
Application Form - Drawing of the Mark - Specimens - Filing Fee
Sample Applications and Drawings
Standard Industrial Classification (S.I.C.) Code List
List of Federal Trademark Forms
State Trademark Acts
State Trademark Data
PART 4: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Introduction to Intellectual Property Protection Worldwide
Patents and Foreign Countries - Attorneys and Registered Agents
Universal Copyright Convention Countries
Paris Union International Convention
Patent Cooperation Treaty Countries
International Trademark Agreements
National and Regional Inventor Associations
Invention Consultants and Research Firms
University and Independent Innovation Research Centers
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programs
Federal Laboratory Assistance for Inventors
Protect Your Intellectual Property: An International Guide to Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks by Hoyt L. Barber & Robert M. Logan, 305 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-896210-95-7; published in 1999; Canadian $59.95.