The Inventor's Patent Handbook

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Last year over 66,000 patents were
awarded by the United States Patent
Office. Half as many more were applied
for. Here is a practical, authoritative
manual to patents and inventions by
Stacy V Jones, the well known patent
columnist for The New York Times.
THE INVENTOR'S PATENT HANDBOOK
provides an explanation of the patent
system in the United States and de-
scribes the procedure for the American
inventor to follow in making the most
of it—from his first record of his inven-
tion to his marketing and managing of
it.
You may be an independent inventor
wondering whether you want a patent
and how to find an attorney, what the
procedure costs and how long it takes.
You may be an engineer planning to
take a job as an inventor with a corpo-
ration. You may be an employee of the
federal government wondering what
benefits you will reap from an inven-
tion to which the government retains
rights.
Whatever your own situation, you
will learn, by means of an actual... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Last year over 66,000 patents were
awarded by the United States Patent
Office. Half as many more were applied
for. Here is a practical, authoritative
manual to patents and inventions by
Stacy V Jones, the well known patent
columnist for The New York Times.
THE INVENTOR'S PATENT HANDBOOK
provides an explanation of the patent
system in the United States and de-
scribes the procedure for the American
inventor to follow in making the most
of it—from his first record of his inven-
tion to his marketing and managing of
it.
You may be an independent inventor
wondering whether you want a patent
and how to find an attorney, what the
procedure costs and how long it takes.
You may be an engineer planning to
take a job as an inventor with a corpo-
ration. You may be an employee of the
federal government wondering what
benefits you will reap from an inven-
tion to which the government retains
rights.
Whatever your own situation, you
will learn, by means of an actual case
history, every step in the patenting
process from the birth of an idea to the
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passage of an application through the
Patent Office. You will find an explana-
tion of the patent system itself, as well
as a description of how to use the Pat-
ent Office. You will find useful sugges-
tions on ways to sell your ideas to pri-
vate companies and to the government.
You will find helpful, as well, the his-
torical background of the American
patent system, the special section of
Practical Hints for Independent Inven-
tors, and pertinent extracts from the
Patent Law. In addition, THE INVEN-
TOR'S PATENT HANDBOOK provides ma-
terials on the important 1966 Supreme
Court decisions concerning patent-
ability, on the registration of trade-
marks and copyrights, and on foreign
patent laws.
THE INVENTOR'S PATENT HANDBOOK
is an indispensable guide to patents and
inventions for the amateur and the pro-
fessional alike.
Since 1952 Stacy V. Jones has written
the weekly patent column that appears
in The New York Times and is distrib-
uted by wire to other newspapers. Mr.
Jones is a regular contributor to Science
Digest and his articles have also ap-
peared in other national magazines. Vissza