Protecting your company's intellectual property a practical guide to trademarks, copyrights, patents & trade secrets

You can't touch it or feel it. Sometimes you can't even see it. Yet, intellectual property continues to soar in value, comprising an increasingly greater portion of a typical company's assets. In the age of instant global communication, understanding what intellectual property is, how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bouchoux, Deborah E., 1950- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : AMACOM c2001.
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627593506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • 1 Recognizing and Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property
  • 2 Trademark Basics
  • 3 Trademark Selection and Searching
  • 4 The Trademark Application Process
  • 5 Maintaining, Monitoring, and Transferring Your Trademark
  • 6 Trademark Infringement, Cancellations, and Dilution
  • 7 Trademarks and the Internet
  • 8 Copyright Basics
  • 9 The Rights of Copyright Owners
  • 10 The Copyright Application Process: Ownership, Registration, Notices, Duration, and Transfers
  • 11 Copyright Infringement
  • 12 Emerging Copyright Trends: Software Usage and Internet Policies
  • 13 Patent Basics
  • 14 Patent Searching, Patent Applications, Duration, and Transfers
  • 15 Patent Infringement
  • 16 Emerging Patent Trends
  • 17 Trade Secret Basics
  • 18 Unfair Competition
  • 19 Owning the Work Product of Your Employees and Independent Contractors
  • 20 Internal Processes for Greater Protection: Audits and Infringement Policies
  • Appendix Information Resources
  • Index.