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Information

Publisher

CRC Press

Year

2012

ISBN

9781466509450

Edition

Topic

Law

Subtopic

Environmental Law

Index

Law

Front Cover
Contents
Preface to the third edition
About the authors
Chapter 1 - Patents as intellectual property
Chapter 2 - Patents: History, philosophy, and purpose
Chapter 3 - The U.S. patent system
Chapter 4 - The Canadian patent system
Chapter 5 - The patentable invention
Chapter 6 - The evolution of a patent
Chapter 7 - The patent document as technical literature
Chapter 8 - The basic principles of patent searching
Chapter 9 - Patent searching in the 21st century
Chapter 10 - Patents as legal documents
Chapter 11 - Patent information from the Internet
Chapter 12 - Importance of record keeping
Chapter 13 - Patents around the world
Chapter 14 - America Invents Act
Glossary: Words and phrases used in patent terminology
Appendix
Back Cover