Patent Strategies for Business (3rd ed.) (Hardcover)

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Product Description

This is the new updated and expanded third edition of the classic work. 454 pages, hardcover, red leather with silver stamping.

This book is a practical guide to the use of patents as effective business tools. That is, this book is written for businessmen and attorneys who are not intellectual property specialists, but who do have opportunities that can be pursued by practical patent strategies. Other areas of intellectual property law are also touched upon, particularly regarding copyright and trade secrets, where they apply to software.

This book is not a "dumbed-down" or "beginner's introduction" to patent law. Instead, it is a sophisticated discussion of selected key approaches to make intellectual property serve a company's business plan and goals. The targeted reader of this book is a CEO or general counsel of a US or foreign corporation, whether large or small. Patent lawyers have also found this book useful to clarify a client oriented view of the patent profession.

For the first time anywhere, two chapters of this book also describe the new Rules of Virtual Genius. This is designed to enable business and technical people to invent-on-demand, and to invent around their competitor's patents.

From the Publisher

"PATENTS ARE BUSINESS TOOLS. THEY MAKE MONEY."

Patent questions are now critical in many commercial and financial transactions. Patent royalty revenues have become significant sources of revenue, patents are more often enforced when litigated, and judgments for infringement can now exceed US $1 billion. For example, in 1990, Texas Instruments Corp. reported that its revenues from patent royalties exceeded its revenues from manufacturing. Its intellectual property management program had become a lucrative profit center. Are you maximizing your returns from your intellectual property assets?

Patent Strategies for Business, Third Edition, is the updated classic guide for the use of patents as business tools. The new Third Edition re-evaluates patent law for the business executive, general counsel, and patent counsel, from the point of view of achieving patent profits in a cost-efficient manner. The book is a tool for the reader, presenting new ideas and strategies that have been successful for others. The book was developed from scores of actual transactions with real corporate clients.

Patent Strategies for Business, Third Edition, details the new rules for inventing-on-demand, inventing around your competitor's patents, strategic management of patent portfolios, and due diligence for the investment grade patent portfolio.

Patent strategies for specific industries are also discussed including : Internet services, software, telecommunication services, financial and insurance products, and medical devices.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 454 pages
• Publisher: LBI Law & Business Institute; 3 edition (December 23, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966143795
• ISBN-13: 978-0966143799
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,686,158 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless, October 1, 2004

By	A. J. Sutter (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Patent Strategies for Business (Paperback)

I have the third edition as published in 1997, at a much higher price than the current book. This book was useless even in 1997.

The author believes in accreting, not revising. So chapter 13 was entitled "New Developments 1995", and chapter 31 entitled "New Developments: 1996 and Early 1997". In between is a disorganized hodgepdge of articles about software, medical devices, foreign filings, and so on. The style of writing is discursive, with almost no diagrams (only one chapter out of 31 has any diagrams at all) and no summaries or bullet point lists to help a busy patent practitioner.

The material itself generally is (i) outdated, (ii) well-known to patent attorneys, and/or (iii) too disorganized and episodic to give a layperson any useful understanding of patent strategy.

I strongly suspect that the glowing reviews elsewhere on this page are written by the author's friends and family, if not the author himself. When I move to a new office a few weeks from now, this book will be heading off my bookshelf and deep into my garage -- if it's lucky.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Caveat Emptor, May 11, 2004

By	Richard A. Wilhelm (West Linn, OR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Patent Strategies for Business (Paperback)

This book has four reviews that give it 5 stars. The Patents are Business Tools "review" that gives it no stars is taken, at least in part, from the preface to the book. The Author Makes Free Update Articles review, which gives the book 5 stars, is written by the author.

I just received this book today and have only read the first 50 pages. I'm dissapointed that I've already discovered 4 or 5 errors in the text - missing or incorrect words. Some sections are well written and others look like they were dictated, but not proof-read. I have the third edition.

It's puzzling that over 60 pages are used to reprint the Patent and Trademark Office's Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions. These are available on the web at http://www.uspto.gov/ for free.

It's even more puzzling that the Appendix includes a Bill proposed to Congress in 1995. The third edition went to press in late 1997.

The preface to the third edition says: "A word of caution: . . . many complicated legal technicalities are glossed over or not discussed in this book, in an effort to communicate fundamental strategies. . . (Also, any part of this book may be obsolete or othewise in error at the time you read it)." I agree with the author on these points.

My advice is to read a chapter or two from the book before you buy it. If you buy it online without seeing it first, you may be surprised by how much it differs from the glowing reviews.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars review from Intellectual Property Rights News, vol 2, n 3, June 25, 1999

By A Customer

"Stephen Glazier's book ... is a field manual for the intellectual property strategist to start thinking and acting ... Glazier's book is one of the few sources which makes the effort to approach the patent field as a matter of strategy rather than as a matter of ... how the authorities line up on each particular legal issue ... Glazier's book lets the reader understand in a brief and manageable way how things work in the patent field ... The writer wishes Glazier would convert his book into a multi-volume loose leaf series for which there is surely strong need and probably no better potential author or editor." -- review from Intellectual Property Rights News, vol. 2, no. 3.