Intellectual property and open source

""Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!""-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society If you work in information technology,...

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Autor principal: Lindberg, Van (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly 2008.
Edición:First edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627319806719
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  • Table of Contents; Preface; What This Book Is...and Is Not; How to Read This Book; This Book As a Story; This Book As a Reference; A Note About Terminology; The Rest of This Book; An Introduction to IP Law; An Intellectual Property Handbook for Developers; Appendixes; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments and Disclaimers; Chapter 1. The Economic and Legal Foundations of Intellectual Property; Law and Code; The Types of Intellectual Property; Patents; Copyrights; Trademarks; Trade Secrets; The Intellectual Property System; Intellectual Property and Market Failure
  • The Cost of Creating KnowledgeThe Value of Secrets; The Nature of Information; It's All Good(s), or Information in Economic Theory; Rivalrous goods; Excludable goods; The four types of goods; Information As a Public Good; Changing the Nature of Information; Algorithms for creating knowledge; Making public goods private; The bargain; The purpose of intellectual property in economic terms; About "Property"; Property as a legal concept; Property as a bundle of rights; Property rights and enforcement; Evaluating the System; Chapter 2. The Patent Document; The Construction of a Patent
  • The Face of the PatentThe Patent Number; Inventors and Inventorship; The listing of inventors; Inventorship: becoming an inventor; Conception of the Invention; Reduction to practice; Practical considerations in inventorship; Ownership of a Patent; Selling a patent; Licensing a patent; Destroying a patent; Inventions as a public good; Patents and Dates; The issue date; The application date; The priority date; The patent term; Exceptions to the rule; Other Information on the Face of the Patent; The historical outline; The Synopsis of the Patent; The title; The abstract
  • The representative figureThe Body of the Patent; The Drawing Sheets; The Written Description; The technical field; The background and summary of the invention; The description of the figures; The Claims; Structure of a Patent Claim; The preamble; The transitional phrase; The limitations; An optional effects clause; Independent and Dependent Claims; Other Resources; Chapter 3. The Patent System; The Patent System As a Knowledge Cache; Requirements for Getting a Patent; Section 101: Subject Matter and Utility; Statutory subject matter; Utility; Section 102: Novelty; Prior art
  • Element-by-element comparisonSection 103: Obviousness; Section 112: Enablement; Getting a Patent; A Typical Corporate Patent Process; Disclosure; Evaluation; Application; Detail; Abstraction; Prosecution; Filing As an Inventor; Problem 1: Syntax; Problem 2: Idioms; Patent Proliferation; The Patent As a Property Right; The right to exclude; The right to injunctive relief; Mutually assured destruction; Patent cross-licensing; Chapter 4. Copyright; Copyright in Context; Expression; Expression and personality; Expression and society; Expression and communication; The problem of control
  • The state of copyright