IP Strategy: Complete Intellectual Property Planning, Access & Protection, 2022 ed.

IP Strategy: Complete Intellectual Property Planning, Access, and Protection provides broad coverage of intellectual property law and its application. Content discusses:

• Obligations for identification, application, assignment, disclosure, and confidentiality

• Letters of intent and development

• Distribution, employment, and consulting agreements

• How to structure development programs

• The integration of litigation and transaction considerations

• The relationship of an invention to the company's market

• The impact of General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT)

• The limits on “look and feel” in copyrights

• The protection of trade secrets when employees move

• The need to inquire about others' rights

This title provides numerous practical guidelines and strategies for:

• Contract formulation (handling the five phases of contract formulation with precise attention to detail)

• Day-to-day work

• Planning (promoting inventiveness in companies)

• Dispute resolution

• Litigation (assessing expense, timing, disruption, and efficiency of litigation)