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Protecting Your Intellectual Property (IP)
Intellectual Property (IP), in the literal sense, refers to the property of one's intellect or mind. In terms of business, it is defined as one's proprietary knowledge.
Alexander Gordon
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Intellectual Property-Exclusive Rights
Exclusive rights- is it well defined? Will the infringer get to be sued? Copy rights, Patent, Trade marks, industrial designs and trade secrets and all these come under Intellectual Property.
Raveendran Nambyar
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International Intellectual Patent Protection and Eastern and Western Culture Issues
As an Online Think Tank member, I know that there are two or more sides to every issues and different perspectives and belief systems on all sides of any debate about right and wrong. Yet, I see international intellectual patent protection as a crisis that should have already been solved. The United States must seize this opportunity to fix the problems with our trading partners on the other side of the planet.
Lance Winslow
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Should You Sell Or License Your New Product Or Idea
A patent is your property and as such you have the legal right to do with it as you wish. Generally you would choose to sell your patent if you would...
Dan Stalfire
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The Difference Between Trade Secrets And Trademarks
Some people get confused between trade secrets and trademarks. A trademark is something that is publicly recognized and known as being officially associated with a particular company. In contrast a trade secret can be a much more broad definition and by its very name is not made public.
Gregg Hall
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Protect Your Creativity
As an entrepreneur, you are undoubtedly blessed with the ability to come up with new ideas for products and services. Sometimes, a competitor comes up with a similar idea and manages to make money out of it before you do. A great deal of planning, money, time and effort are required to turn these ideas into invention and innovation.
Alexander Gordon
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Intellectual Property
Over the course of humanity, every discovery has yielded more questions as we continue to explore new territory. As we continue to explore the frontier known as cyberspace, and discover new ways to use the medium, we are opened up to more ethical dilemmas and questions. Intellectual property has always been a thorny issue.
Richard Hall
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IPC Classsification
One of the hot topics in the IP world today is IPC reform. Due to be published on 1 July 2005, and to come into effect on 1 January 2006, the eighth version of the IPC classification system (also referred to as IPC 2006) may not seem radically different from the previous IPC7, on first blush. But there are important benefits for patent searchers, attorneys, examiners and IP manager
Vinod Kr. Singh
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Trademarks: When and How to Search and File Trademark Applications
A trademark can be any word, slogan, design, symbol, or even a color, smell, product configuration or a combination of these, used to identify the source of origin of particular goods and services. The trademark serves as a source identifier of your goods and services, to distinguish it from the goods and services of others.
Michael Cohen
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Patent Map Generation and Reading
Patent Mapping a way to visualize patent mining results that involves clustering or otherwise orienting patent data on a page so that there is meaning in the spatial relationships among the data points. Patent Landscape: graphical representation of how large numbers of patents relate to each other based on keywords, citations, or patent classifications. It is useful in identify trends, determine patent gaps and opportunities, and design around competitors' patents.
Vinod Kr. Singh
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