Protecting Your Ideas: The Inventor's Guide to Patents (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

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"Companies of the future are being built on IP. Joy Bryant's book is a clear and concise description of the IP maze; it defines and describes IP and how to protect it. This book is for everyone on your team; it is an essential tool for the preservation of your ideas and your future. Buy this roadmap and use it." -- Dr. Kent A. Murphy, President, F&S, Inc.

"If you are an innovator and want to learn the "do's" and "don'ts" of protecting your inventions through the labyrinth of concepts, rules, laws, and treaties, then Joy Bryant's new book, Protecting Your Ideas: The Inventor's Guide to Patents is an excellent place to start....Protecting Your Ideas is the entrepreneur's step-by-step guide for safeguarding intellectual property." -- Dr. Robert G. Templin, Jr., President, Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology

"Protecting Your Ideas is the entrepreneur's step-by-step guide for safeguarding intellectual property."
--Robert G. Templin, Jr., Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology
"Rarely does one find a book that has so much important information on a subject so vital to the creative or inventive mind. Ms. Bryant has built an important bridge for the inventor on the long road to success."
--Joe East, President, PAR Technologies
"More useful information per square inch than any other book I have seen on this subject."
--Shelia Marsh, Principal Attorney, The In-House Advantage
"Joy Bryant has the rare ability to translate very complicated and weighty stuff into immediately understandable and even interesting information."
--Anne Womack, Director of Sponsored Programs, College of William and Mary
"Joy Bryant's book is a clear and concise description of the IP (intellectual property) maze; it defines and describes IP and how to protect it. The book is for everyone on your team; it is an essential tool for the preservation of your ideas and your future. Buy this roadmap and use it."
--Dr. Kent A. Murphy, President, F&S, Inc. -- Review

"This book serves as a patent "Bible" for all levels of inventors decorated with excellent examples covering all possible areas of invention....It is obvious that the author combined a wide scientific background with the deep knowledge of patent law to create for us a dictionary for publishing ideas." -- Alisa Buchman, Senior Researcher and Group Leader, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Review

"Protecting Your Ideas is the entrepreneur's step-by-step guide for safeguarding intellectual property."
--Robert G. Templin, Jr., Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology
"Rarely does one find a book that has so much important information on a subject so vital to the creative or inventive mind. Ms. Bryant has built an important bridge for the inventor on the long road to success."
--Joe East, President, PAR Technologies
"More useful information per square inch than any other book I have seen on this subject."
--Shelia Marsh, Principal Attorney, The In-House Advantage
"Joy Bryant has the rare ability to translate very complicated and weighty stuff into immediately understandable and even interesting information."
--Anne Womack, Director of Sponsored Programs, College of William and Mary
"Joy Bryant's book is a clear and concise description of the IP (intellectual property) maze; it defines and describes IP and how to protect it. The book is for everyone on your team; it is an essential tool for the preservation of your ideas and your future. Buy this roadmap and use it."
--Dr. Kent A. Murphy, President, F&S, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (October 22, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0121384101
• ISBN-13: 978-0121384104
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,191,350 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars helpful guide on patents, April 4, 2001

By	G W Thielman (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

One of the most complete and up-to-date books for inventors is _Protecting_ by Mrs Bryant, who is a patent agent. After distinguishing patents from copyrights and trade secrets, she outlines a roadmap for inventors and identifies many of the pitfalls likely to be encountered. As a collateral benefit, she also summarizes the process for initiating foreign applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The intended audience is predominantly engineers (both regarding personal inventions and those assigned to their employers) with suggestions on documentation and diligence along with expected costs, but patent agents and attorneys can also benefit from the overview on statutory intent and court interpretation. The figures showing the relevant forms are an added benefit. One unintentionally amusing comment was her observation that "many lawyers" do not satisfy the requirements to register before the US Patent & Trademark Office. Actually, only a tiny handful of attorneys qualify to formally prosecute patent applications (although registration is not needed for litigation or licensing, and in fairness the author probably means "intellectual property" lawyers of whom patent attorneys are a subset). Hopefully a revised edition will address publication of patent applications from the American Inventors Protection Act and the impact of _Festo_v._Shoketsu_ on the Doctrine of Equivalents - both developing after the book's publication - as well as correct the assertion that PTO registration is available only from passing the (rather difficult) patent exam - the alternative method is to work as a patent examiner. Otherwise, _Protecting_ presents a valuable and recommended resource to engineers and scientists.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for entrepreneurs, May 14, 1999

By A Customer

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful book with concrete examples on how to protect IP, May 17, 1999

By A Customer

This book has been extremely helpful to me in learning about the patent process. Each step in obtaining a patent is clearly described and common pitfalls are pointed out so they can be avoided. Each chapter provides concrete examples that summarize the material just covered and presents the information in a way that is easy to understand. As an engineer concerned with protecting IP, I have found this book invaluable.