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Intellectual Property
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Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities That Could Make or Break Your Business
This book has useful guidelines for business owners and corporate executives with intellectual properties to manage. Goldstein, who teaches law at Stanford, explains the Byzantine legal codes that apply to patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. He also includes a look at how the Internet muddies the waters when it comes to intellectual property, and offers insight into the current situation and how to compete while minimizing the risk of running afoul of the law. Goldstein also offers his predictions for the future, given protectionism's cyclical nature.

Copyright
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The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect and Use Written Works
The author is a San Francisco-based intellectual property and business attorney who has written numerous self-help law books. He offers copyright advice to writers of words (not music) in any genre, whether working freelance or for someone else, and for related professionals such as editors, publishers, librarians, and literary agents. First he summarizes the current copyright law in the US, then discusses particular problems or goals. The included CD-ROM in this ninth edition contains legal and copyright forms.

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-Literary Law Guide for Authors
-Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and other Enemies of Creativity
Patent searching
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Patent searching made easy : how to do patent searches on the Internet and in the library
Patent Searching Made Easy. Written by inventor David Hitchcock, this book explains step by step how to use an Internet browser to search U.S. patents. It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then, using that classification, find all relevant patents issued within that class. Whether browsing infant flotation devices or computerized pet toys, the inventor can quickly tell by searching over the Internet whether he or she is in the running to be "the first."

Licensing
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License your invention
This Business Reference resource provides legal information and practical guidance concerning ownership rights and intellectual property, closure agreements, royalties, lawsuits, infringements, injuries, and related matters. Stim (an attorney) offers specific advice on negotiation licensing agreements, working with a licensing agent, finding and soliciting licensees, and drafting and modifying agreements.

Also in Business Reference:
-Trademark : legal care for your business & product name
Controversy
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The gridlock economy : how too much ownership wrecks markets, stops innovation, and costs lives
Examines the consequences of excessive property rights creating an underuse of resources, addressing such issues as excessive patent rights that inhibit the development of life-saving drugs, real estate practices that lead to a loss of family estates, and copyright laws.

Copyright, Patents & Trademarks
 Copyright
The homepage of U.S. Copyright Office has everything you need to know about copyright, including forms.
 Catalog of Copyright Entries
This site has databases which can help you determine if a work published after 1922 is in the public domain; who owns the copyright on a work, and more.
 Patents & Trademarks
The homepage of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. If you have questions, this is the place to start.
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