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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