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)