Useful tips and step-by-step guidance from filing to issue to license Acquire and protect your share of this major business asset Want to secure and exploit the intellectual property rights due you or your company? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how - helping you to evaluate your idea's commercial potential, conduct patent and trademark searches, document the invention process, license your IP rights, and comply with international laws, Plus, you get detailed examples of each patent application type! Discover how to: -
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Protect your rights abroad See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements, Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file,
Henri Charmasson is an attorney with a 35-year career in the field of intellectual property (IP) law, He has been a naming adviser to major corporations, Henri is also an inventor with his name on 15 U,S, patents and an entrepreneur who sits on the board of several small business corporations, In his early engineering career, Henri designed computer hardware, Henri has authored several articles and delivered lectures on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret topics, and written an authoritative treatise about the art of naming companies and branding new products, Born, raised, and educated in sunny Provence, France, he's found in California the ideal place to exert his enterprising spirit, John Buchaca, also an Intellectual Property law attorney, is a former software engineer and occasional inventor, and has worked with Henri for more than 15 years, Indeed, when Henri wrote the first edition of this book, John regarded himself as the 'first dummy,' Before becoming a lawyer, he worked in ocean acoustics analysis and modeling and computer programming, His undergraduate degree is in applied mathematics, But his highest claim to fame (according to Henri) is to be married to Henri's daughter and to be the father of two of Henri's grandchildren, He lives in San Diego, California where he is a partner at Charmasson, Buchaca & Leach, LLP, an IP law firm, |
