Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office
Patent your creation with the world’s bestselling guide to patents!Have a world-class idea? Ready to protect your invention from copycats? Then turn to the best resource available — Patent It Yourself. Attorney David Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you: . determine if you can patent your invention …
Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials in Established and Emerging Media (American Casebook Series)
Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials in Established and Emerging Media is an exciting new book that contains cases, interviews with celebrities and other materials that educates its readers about the complicated entertainment business. To capture first-hand knowledge of the entertainment business, Burr has interviewed widely throughout the United States, Australia, England, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. The celebrities featured …
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy …
In its 19th edition, Mass Media Law offers an updated look at the ever-changing landscape of media law. It continues to provide undergraduates with the foundation they need to understand the field, going back to the adoption of the First Amendment, and quickly brings them up to speed with the most current issues. In their popular conversational style, …
Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries (Law & Business of the Entertainment Industries)
In response to the increasing convergence of technologies in the entertainment industries, this thoroughly updated and revised fifth edition makes the casebook more timeless. Providing contract templates covering book publishing, recording contracts, actor agreements, video game agreements, and internet agreements, among others, this new edition is more useful and illustrative of the business of entertainment for lawyers, students, …
We live in a society that is awash with information, but few of us really understand what information is. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the world’s leading authorities on the philosophy of information and on information ethics, Luciano Floridi, offers an illuminating exploration of information as it relates to both philosophy and science. He discusses the …
This Nutshell provides a succinct description of the fundamentals of U.S. patent law. Ranging from the acquisition of patent rights to their enforcement, it contains an overview of relevant statutes, rules, and cases that collectively define this area of intellectual property law. Topics include claim construction, obviousness, anticipation, written description and enablement, infringement, remedies, and other notable doctrines. …
Cases and Materials on Trade Secret Law (American Casebook Series)
This, the first casebook in the United States devoted exclusively to trade secret law, is challenging yet user-friendly to students in order to facilitate their reading and understanding of the material. This casebook is designed to be used by law students (and business students) with no prior background in intellectual property law. The authors have made conscious and …
True Patent Value: Defining Quality in Patents and Patent Portfolios
Book Description Publication Date: July 2013 | ISBN-10: 0989554104 | ISBN-13: 978-0989554107 TRUE PATENT VALUE answers the questions, “What is a high-quality patent?”, and “What is a valuable patent?” Specific patents are shown to be good or bad, resulting in patent sales for millions of dollars, court decisions for hundreds of millions of dollars, or in …
The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
Today’s copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright–and its violation–a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and …