The Fourth Edition, with its new author team, is recommitted to the book's original purpose and design by focusing on the following core features: Up to date, presenting major contrasting views on key issuesAmple explanatory text and notes to best serve the book's dual role as a casebook for students and a treatise for practitionersSIDE BARS writt[Read More]

This Nutshell provides a succinct description of the fundamentals of U.S. patent law. Ranging from the acquisition of patent rights to their enforcement, it contains an overview of relevant statutes, rules, and cases that collectively define this area of intellectual property law. Topics include claim construction, obviousness, anticipation, writte[Read More]

The best way to protect your invention is to keep good records. Let The Inventor's Notebook track & and prompt you to take care of every important step in the process. Use it to: document the development of your invention help you can make refinements while building and testing assess the commercial potential of your invention calcula[Read More]

Inventor? Find out if you're the first to file a patent, online and in the library. In the past, if you wanted to assess the novelty of an idea, you had to wade through the patent database at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Virginia -- or hire a lawyer to do a patent search for $500 and up. The cost and inconvenience of these searche[Read More]