This book re-evaluates US patent law for general counsel and business executives from the point of view of achieving cost-efficient business results. It examines topics including: strategic management of patent portfolios, licensing tips and developments, due diligence, how to invent on demand, and how to design around your competitors' patents.
About the author
Preface: Patents are business tools
Acknowledgements
I. Business strategy
Strategic management of intellectual property assets
How a corporation can invent-on-demand: the rules of virtual genius
Inventing around your competitor's patents, and other patent strategies
How to enforce disposability with patents
Get your patents on the fast track
Tips for patent licenses
II. Financing technology companies
Patent due diligence for the finance of technology companies
Patent for new business plans
III. Litigation and liability
Patent litigation as a business tool
Personal liability of officers and directors for corporate infringement (civil and criminal)
IV. New developments
Software and data patents: 1994 developments
The new paradigm for software and financial products: STAC Electronics
The developments 1995: globalization and software
The new 'design around' opinion letters
V. Specific industries
Patents for new telecommunications services
Patents for program trading strategies and other financial products
Software patents, their development, and the limits of copyrights
Patents for software and smart equipment
Who really owns 'your' software?
Patents for software algorithms
How to bring a new medical product to the market
How foreign medical device companies can penetrate the US market
Patents as a profit centre for hospitals
VI. Global strategies
US patents for foreign companies
Foreign patents for US companies
VII. The GATT amendments to the US patent statute
The 1995 GATT amendments to the US patent statute
Appendices
Fixing the patent statute: title and tort
The US patent statute on the head of a pin
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