Intellectual Property Law for Engineers, Scientists, and Entrepreneurs

Fully revised new edition that completely covers intellectual property law--and many related issues--for engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs

This book informs engineering and science students, technology professionals, and entrepreneurs about the intellectual property laws that are important in their careers. It covers all of the major areas of intellectual property development and protection in non-legalistic terms that are understandable to technology and science professionals. New material includes a comprehensive discussion on the American Invents Act (AIA), coverage of many new high-profile topics, such as patent protection the mobile communications industry, and a new chapter on ＂The Future of Technology, Engineering, and Intellectual Property.＂

Now in its second edition, Intellectual Property Law for Engineers, Scientists, and Entrepreneurs enables inventors and creators to efficiently interface with an intellectual property attorney in order to obtain the maximum protection for their invention or creation, and to take steps to ensure that that invention or creation does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others. It includes patent, trade secret, mask work, and cybersquatting legal and procedural principles. The book also shows readers how to properly use new vehicles of intellectual property protection for novel software, biotech, and business method inventions. Additionally, it examines trademark protection for domain names, and other ancillary matters that fall within the genre of intellectual property protection. This informative text:

• Covers all of the major areas of intellectual property development and protection in clear, layman’s terms so as to be easily understood by technology and science professionals
• Provides detailed outlines of patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair competition laws
• Offers essays on famous and noteworthy inventors and their inventions--and features a copy of the first page of patents resulting from these inventors’ efforts
• Covers many new high-profile cases covering patent protection within the mobile communications industry

Intellectual Property Law for Engineers, Scientists, and Entrepreneurs, Second Edition is an excellent text for graduate and undergraduate engineering students, as well as professionals and those starting a new technology business who need to know all the laws concerning their inventions and creations.

HOWARD B. ROCKMAN is a registered U.S. patent attorney, intellectual property management consultant, author and lecturer. In addition to his intellectual property law practice, he is an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL, and at the Engineering Colleges of Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He counsels companies and individual innovators and creators on a variety of intellectual property matters. He has served as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as well as Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has represented worldwide clients in litigation of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases in federal and state courts. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).