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February 13, 2007
Patents for Business
M.
Henry Heines, partner at Townsend & Townsend, has written an informative
backgrounder about the business of patents, from nuts-and-bolts introduction to
patent management to strategic issues. The book:
Patents for Business: The
Manager's Guide to Scope, Strategy, and Due Diligence, lays out the
essentials that managers need to know about developing and managing a patent
portfolio.
Heines mines solid nuggets about patent basics: excellent disclosure about claims, including claim scope analysis; the specification; the wisdom of patentability searching, and explanation of prior art. Other, more business related topics covered: patent due dilgence; coverage strategies and perspectives; freedom to operate; patent portfolio management; multinational patent filing; the use of provisional applications, and inventorship issues.
Patents for Business, from Praeger Publishers, is a highly recommended touchstone for grounding business professionals in the fundamental aspects of patenting and patent life cycle management. ISBN: 0-275-99337-X. Publication date: March 2007. $54.95 in hardcover.
Posted by Patent Hawk at February 13, 2007 12:59 AM | Patents In Business