Strongly threaded through the fabric of the invention-innovation cycle is the interplay between inventor and employer and between inventor and potential user or licensee. These relationships, including typical industrial, ...

For the benefit of readers unfamiliar with the details of patent application prosecution and judicial review, the role of the Patent Office and courts is herein summarized.

This chapter presents a survey of the historical background of the American patent system and, at its conclusion, raises serious questions as to whether that system is currently either performing effectively the original ...

Recent proposals for improving the patent system are discussed, including conflicting philosophies in Congress and in the courts.

While this book in some portions has covered a fairly large canvas, it has specifically dealt with the need to revamp the patent laws, or at least return their practice to the original intent of the founding fathers of the ...

The possible effect upon our system of current planning for a common European patent is discussed in this chapter, with several of the author’s views for modernizing and improving the American patent system and its administration.

Since there is a decided legal, as well as technical, side to the problems of patents and of protecting proprietary rights, a pin-pointing of difficulties in our current system of judiciary review is necessary in the ...

This chapter carries an illustrative approach found most effective in lecturing, tying together a complete picture of the invention, en trepreneuring, business, and legal cycles often involved in innovation – and through ...