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Protecting Your Ideas The Inventor's Guide to Patents by Joy L. Bryant
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"...provides an overview of the types of intellectual property protection in an easy-to-read
format that demystifies the patent process...with numerous examples and up-to-date
information about U.S. patent laws."

Book Review

Protecting your intellectual property Joy Bryant's book clearly explains the importance of protecting intellectual property. Most inventors, especially independent ones, think they know how to protect their ideas. Joy's book shows us all the important aspects that are often overlooked or misunderstood. She first provides a nice, concise history of the process of granting temporary monopolies to the creators of intellectual property. This helps the reader to better understand the process of obtaining patents. Joy's book is especially helpful in defining the important steps that are necessary prior to filing a patent, such as good recordkeeping and how much can be disclosed about the ideas without ruining the patent process. In addition to providing clear, step-by-step instructions for navigating through the legalities, Joy provides a wealth of practical examples to illustrate the principles. This book is an important work for all entrepreneurs who establish their businesses upon their own ideas.

The Patent Drawing Book: How To Prepare Formal Drawings Required by The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Jack Lo,David Pressman,Stephen Elias,Stephanie Harolde

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Clear and adequately detailed patent drawings are just as crucial to a successful application as the textual information they illustrate. In response to reader demand, patent agent Lo and attorney Pressman have written a step-by-step guide to patent drawing. Created as a companion publication to Pressman's Patent It Yourself (Nolo, 1996), it's easier to understand than the Patent and
Trademark Office (PTO) equivalent, Guide for the Preparation of Patent Drawings (GPO, 1993). This book shows how to prepare formal drawings using a pen, a computer-aided design (CAD) program, a camera, or by tracing a photograph. It also notes common errors to avoid, tells how to interpret and respond to objections or rejections by the PTO, and explains terminology ("informalities," "enabling disclosure," "prior art") to which nonspecialists will be exposed in the process. Any library owning Pressman's Patent It Yourself (a self-help standard in its own right) will want this one, too.Johanna Johnson, Dallas P.L.

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