Consider a spherical patent : IP and patenting in high-tech business /: IP and patenting in high-tech business. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Joseph Gortych.
• Authors: Gortych, Joseph E
• Contents: Overview and Underview; Simplification versus Oversimplification; The Spherical Patent; The Common Worker Drives Innovation; The Adverse Impact of Überproductivity on Innovation; The Evolution (and Devolution) of Patenting in Today’s Economy; The IP Bazaar; The Pervasive Nature of IP Interconnections and Interactions; There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Patenting System; References The IP Universe; It’s More Complicated than You Think; The IP Big Bang; Business Entropy: The Disorganization of the Organization; To Have Entropy or Not to Have Entropy; Manifestations of Patenting System Entropy; How Hard Can It Be?; Logic Is Dangerous; References Beyond the Spherical Patent; Surface Features; What Lies Beneath; The Examiner Field of View; The Self-Imposed Business Value Requirement Patent Portfolio Thermodynamics; Patent Value; Patent Portfolios; The Classical Ideal Patent Gas; The Megaexpense of Creating a Megaportfolio; References Classical and Quantum Patent Mechanics; Classical Patent Mechanics; A Brief Classical Patent Mechanics View of the Patenting Process; A Closer (But Still Brief) Look at the Patenting Process; Quantum Mechanics Interlude; Quantum Patent Mechanics and the Validity Uncertainty Principle; To the USPTO, Aunt Betty and Intel Are Equal; Measuring versus Filtering; Let’s Parte!; The Presumption of Validity; If a Patent Issues in a Forest…; Measuring Patent Validity; What, Then, Does the Patent Office Measure? Provisional Patent Applications Revealed; Introduction; More Basic Information; More about the Effective Filing Date; The Spherical Provisional Patent Application; Intervening Prior Art; The Provisional-to-Nonprovisional Conversion Problem; The New-Matter Problem; Effective Filing Date and First to File; The Scenario from Chapter 5 Revisited; How Bad Provisional Patent Applications Happen to Good People; It’s Not All Bad News The Double-Edged Sword of Infringeability and Validity; Infringeability–Validity Balance; The Infringeability–Validity Curves; Claim Zones; Fairness and the Infringeability–Validity Balance; Claims for Pioneering Inventions; Bureaucratic Quantum Tunneling; Claim Distortion; Claim Fuzziness; Patent Quality Lost in IP Space; The Exponential Growth of Patenting; The Fractal Nature of Innovation ; Patenting in Dense IP Spaces; The Classical Ideal IP Space; IP Space Uncertainty; IP Black Holes; What about Us?; Patent Waves and Technology Waves; The Transition from Core to Commercialization Patents; Know Thy IP Space; Prior Art and Patent Application Preparation; The Myth of Seeking the Broadest Claims Possible; The Freedom to Operate Patent System Operational Reality; Existential Reasons for Patenting; Patenting outside Shangri-La; How to Kill Innovation; Status Quo Inertia; Top-Down and Bottom-Up Change; Business–Legal–Technical Balance; The Canonical Patenting System; Generation and Documentation; No Innovator Left Behind; Documenting Innovations Is Not Optional; Document Everything; The In-Sourcing and Outsourcing Options; The IP Project Manager; The Need for Parallel Processing; A Deeper Look into the Innovation Review Process; The Patent Application Review Process ; Types of Patent Claims; Claim Construction; Business Review of Patent Applications That’s Obviousness!; The Requirement Filters Revisited; The History of Obviousness; Two Supreme Court Obviousness Decisions; The KSR Case; USPTO Examination Guidelines for Obviousness; Obviousness Rejections; The "Secondary Considerations" Wormhole; Wormhole Limitations; Invention Quenching; The Obviousness/Nonobviousness Interface; Fitting Patents into a Dense IP Space Inventions and Inventors; Where and How Do Most Technology Workers Learn about IP?; The IP Elephant in the Room; IP Training and Education; IP and Technology Worker Professionalism; IP Zanshin; Awards and Rewards; The IP Performance Metric; Changing the IP Culture; Awards versus Rewards; The Importance of Inventorship; The General Rule of Inventorship; Managing Expectations about Inventorship; Inclusion Rather than Exclusion; The Order of Inventors; The Coefficient of Shame; When Is an Innovation Patentable?; Mentoring Independent Inventors; Introduction; The Conflict of Interest Problem; The Lack of Money Problem; The Enforcement Problem; Chester Carlson; Dr. Brian Caldwell, Independent Inventor; Independent Inventor Riot Act Central Organizing Principles and Patent Strategies; Calling the COPs; The No-Patenting COP; The Bottleneck IP COP; The Commercialization COP; New Products from an Old Technology; Assertive Licensing; The Cross-Licensing COP; The One Product, One Patent COP; Patenting Product Components Glossary of Useful Terms and Abbreviations Index Notes appear at the end of each chapter.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (267 pages), (3 illustrations)
• Subjects: 346.0486; Patent laws and legislation; Patents
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439888063
• Related ISBNs: 143988806X
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