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Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in licensing intellectual property.

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Satisfies the longstanding need for a practical, down-to-earth guide to intellectual property licensing

Intellectual property licensing is one of the most crucial, and least understood, income drivers among inventors and high-tech companies. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, Essentials of Intellectual Property Licensing provides managers with a clear, concise overview of IP licensing. In practical, down-to-earth language it clearly explains licensing strategies; deal making; royalties and royalty rates; patent, trademark and copyright licenses; and basic contract law. Managers learn the significance of intellectual property licensing on their bottom lines, and how to value both established and new intangible technologies. And, with the help of case studies and plenty of real-world tips and techniques for structuring and negotiating the best deals, the authors outline a complete step-by-step process for developing and implementing an effective intellectual property program in virtually any type of enterprise.

Paul J. Lerner (Suffern, NY) is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of General Patent Corporation, an intellectual property management company. Alexander I. Poltorak is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of General Patent Corporation.

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good read (considering the subject).......2007-07-18

This is a good guide for introducing someone to the subject. Like the title says, it's the essentials, giving the reader a foundation to come back to wherever the particulars of their situation might take them. It is a big plus that the book is surprisingly readable - Important given that the typical reader might have to read the book in order to develop an understanding of why they should have an interest in the subject.

Essentials of Intellectual Property (Essentials Series)

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Interesting but Flawed
A clear guide to IP
Excellent Primer for the layman and seasoned professional!
Clear and enjoyable reading!
Clear and enjoyable reading!

Essentials of Intellectual Property (Essentials Series)
Alexander I. Poltorak , and Paul J. Lerner
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ESSENTIALS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

"Alexander Poltorak and Paul Lerner have written the definitive primer on intellectual property for business professionals. Thorough in its coverage and understandable in its delivery, Essentials of Intellectual Property provides not only an outstanding summary of intellectual property basics, but a useful and sensible strategy for using intellectual property to the best needs of a business. Poltorak and Lerner have combined their in-depth knowledge of patent law with their savvy business skills to yield an indispensable reference for the business professional."
—Jeffrey L. Brandt, Patent Attorney, Former Senior Vice President and Intellectual Property & Licensing Counsel, priceline.com

"Alex Poltorak and Paul Lerner have pulled off a mighty feat with Essentials of Intellectual Property. They have crafted a work that is clear for the beginning practitioner while nuanced and sophisticated for the savvy tech transfer and IP management veteran. Lively and often witty writing is a treat not often found in tomes on what can be a dry subject. With Essentials of Intellectual Property, the practitioner has a new literary tool for tying IP strategy to the business reality of tomorrow."
—Edward Kahn, Founder and President, EKMS, Inc., Cambridge, MA

"This critically important new volume of work not only provides the professional with a greater knowledge of this vast subject, but also the novice with a better understanding and appreciation for the results of their creative abilities."
—Lawrence J. Udell, Executive Director, California Invention Center, Professor of New Ventures and Entrepreneurship

The Wiley Essentials Series—because the business world is always changing...and so should you.

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Interesting but Flawed .......2006-06-06

The strength of this book is that it provides a comprehensible introduction to intellectual property - focusing on patents. If you want to learn something about intellectual property without wading too deep into lawyerspeak - this book may interest you. In addition to patents - trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets are discussed; other aspects of intellectual property are waved at. The last chapter provides dated coverage of intellectual property as it relates to the Internet - mostly focusing on business method patents. This is interesting from a business perspective but the authors do not seem versed in the technical aspects of E-Commerce. Laches and estoppel are demystified and the book presents what looks like solid advice on how to enforce your rights against a group of infringers (attack the weakest one first). There are clearly divided sections (making the frequent pauses that I occasionally made between readings convenient), key ideas are highlighted in an attractive manner and charts and graphs are well presented.

I'm not sure there is enough in depth information in this book to make it really useful. Just before the authors really dig into a subject they roll out their well-oiled marketing spiel - "consult a lawyer/professional on this issue". Patent law is even compared to brain surgery at one point. While consulting with a lawyer on serious patent litigation is probably good advice - it would have been nice if the authors had gone into more depth on the advice a lawyer might give. Throughout the book, patent law is treated as an impenetrable black box - the reader can get a look at the outside and hear a little about what goes on inside but opening the box entirely is expressly forbidden. I was repeatedly given the impressiion that the main purpose of this book was to serve to market the services of intellectual property attorneys and consultants to corporate executives.

Another flaw in the book is that the index is weak - which, along with the sparse table of contents and vague referrals to previous chapters - makes the book a poor reference. Another irritating blemish is that while the book presents a number of statistics, it includes no information on where they came from. Some sort of footnote referring to sources would have been nice.

Additional note (15 Jul): If you are at all interested in studying or learning about patents I highly recommend Patent it Yourself by David Pressman. I've only read the first few chapters but it's already clear that Patent it Yourself is ever so much more comprehensive, useful and practical than Essentials of Intellectual Property.

A clear guide to IP.......2005-08-17

This book is both concise and complete in covering the major aspects of IP. Using language and examples that are easy to understand, I found this book to be a quick intro to the fast-growing world of IP. Highly recommended.

Excellent Primer for the layman and seasoned professional!.......2003-11-12

This is an excellent book that I believe can help level the playing field for smaller companies vis-a-vis their larger competitors concerning exploiting the full value of
their intellectual property rights. The authors include a chapter addressed to corporate officers and directors concerning potential liability for mismanaging intellectual property. This chapter alone is an eye-opener that ought to be read by every director and officer not only to avoid liability but to enhance share value. The authors have given the reader a seminal work concerning the difficult nature of patent valuation including a method that uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing algorithm (since a patent's value, like an option, decreases with the passage of time, all other things being equal). The authors discuss the methods utilized to value a patent in a publicly traded company and point out that Eli Lilly lost $35 billion in market capitalization when one of its two Prozac patents was declared invalid for double-patenting, thus, demonstrating the enormous value of that patent. I am a patent attorney who learned much from this book. This is a highly readable and even entertaining book that makes an excellent primer for anyone interested in the business of intellectual property.

Clear and enjoyable reading!.......2002-10-04

As a quick primer, I found this book to be terrific. And the dry humour was appreciated as well. Never thought I'd make it through so quickly, and yet come away with such a good appreciation of the subject matter.

Clear and enjoyable reading!.......2002-10-04

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Helpful guide
Minimal study guide for CLEP, but useful
Just enough to pass my CLEP

The Essentials of Business Law I
William D. Keller
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Covers law and business, common law, constitutional law, the U.S. court systems, administrative law, criminal law, torts, contracts, agency, and sales.

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Helpful guide.......2005-08-02

This book provides a condense version of legal terms that a beginner law student will find useful.

Minimal study guide for CLEP, but useful.......2001-12-15

This tiny book is a study guide, in grouped/outline format. Students taking an introductory business law class, or those preparing for the CLEP Business Law I exam can use it.

It compresses the highpoints presented in a semester long college course into 234 half-sized pages. As a result, you won't get a great deal of in-depth material, but it might just be enough to cram before the CLEP examination.

Just enough to pass my CLEP.......2000-08-24

However I enjoyed Mr. Keller's style of breaking the subject matter into groupings. That way I found out if I mastered said subject area, BEFORE I moved on. The price of the book, compared to the 3 college credits hours, is without comparision....Mr. Keller, when are you going to produce Business Law II?! Thank-you.

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Past Imperfect: An Enjoyable Glossy Memoir.......2006-11-05

This autobiography, first written by the effervescent Collins in 1978 before being updated in 1984, is a great showbiz memoir. The best word to describe this book is breezy...going at lightning speed from London to Hollywood to the jet set hideaways of Europe back to the glittering lights of LA Collins dishes on everything from husbands (3 failed ones), clothes (couture of course), children (3 darling ones) and career (a roller coaster).

With a gritty take on her life Collins is refreshingly frank in this book, bridging the gap between kiss and tell all and a manifesto of sorts. Sharply written and fantastically photographed this book is the Collins standard. As always she'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

Outrageous Autobiography........2002-11-10

'Past Imperfect' follows Joan's childhood, her swift transition into an international sex symbol... from Hollywood to Europe and back, three broken marriages, the struggle to save her daughter's life & her many love affairs. Films, glamour, fashion... Joan Collins remains one of the most beautiful and sexy lady of showbiz!

Deserves a big fat zero.......2001-07-27

What a load of tripe. shes trying to hang on her sisters coat tails. go back to acting joan cos you certainly can't write. that's for sure.

I only read this book because of her sister Jackie's books.......2000-09-15

Boy, was this a bunch of trash and waste of money! It's obvious that Joan is trying to hang on her little sisters coat tails but she just doesn't have the writing skills and someone out there who told her "your books great darlink" should have been a real friend and told her what a bunch of garbage it is. And she continues to write which I just don't understand! This book is boring. Don't waste your money! Buy the Enquirer instead. It'll be more entertaining.

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Robert Harlan Moser
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"If Moser had not lived the life he sets down in this memoir, he would have had a hard time inventing it. As fiction, it would seem too picaresque, too filled with wonderful adventure, harrowing moments, travel, romance, eccentric, intellectual challenges, and all the rewards and hardships of an extraordinary life in medicine. But Moser has lived it and his art as a writer keeps pace with his animated life as a doctor. The result is a book that takes a reader into the heart of medicine, and into the heart of this fascinating man... This is a lofty book, by a man who has dared to climb to the heights of life, and now writes of what there is to see."

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Past Imperfect: An Autobiography
Joan Collins
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This publication presents the report and plan of action that resulted from the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference held in Bangkok in 2002. It will be a valuable resource for all those interested in learning more about population and development issues in Asia and the Pacific and national efforts being taken to alleviate poverty and accelerate socio-economic development in the region.

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Eugene Wigner is one of the few giants of 20th-century physics. His early work helped to shape quantum mechanics, he laid the foundations of nuclear physics and nuclear engineering, and he contributed significantly to solid-state physics. His philosophical and political writings are widely known. All his works will be reprinted in Eugene Paul Wigner's Collected Workstogether with descriptive annotations by outstanding scientists. The present volume begins with a short biographical sketch followed by Wigner's papers on group theory, an extremely powerful tool he created for theoretical quantum physics. They are presented in two parts. The first, annotated by B. Judd, covers applications to atomic and molecular spectra, term structure, time reversal and spin. In the second, G. Mackey introduces to the reader the mathematical papers, many of which are outstanding contributions to the theory of unitary representations of groups, including the famous paper on the Lorentz group.

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You don't have to be involved in a play to be a Broadway enthusiast. In On Broadway, Men Still Wear Hats, the lives of some of theater's lesser known contributors are brought to light: an accountant who gave up number crunching to write Internet theater reviews full-time, an amateur photographer who went from groupie to Tony Award nominee, a Texas ballet dancer turned kosher play seller, a Glasgow high school dropout who became Broadway's favorite restauranteur. Author, journalist, and playwright Robert Simonson follows in the footsteps of Damon Runyon, Joseph Mitchell, and A.J. Liebling as he captures these and other passionate lives lived out along the edges of New York theater world's white-hot spotlight.

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Delightful Theater Book.......2005-05-31

Full of telling details, this book is a gem about the theatrical milieu and its offbeat denizens. Huge amounts of warm, erudite fun for theatergoers of all kinds. And a perfect present for the theater aficianado you love! Simonson's book is highly recommended--a genuine treat.

Exquisite behind-the-curtain stories.......2005-04-21

Backstage sleuth Robert Simonson is a better writer than many who cover what's happening in front of the footlights. In On Broadway, Men Still Wear Hats, he steps around to the rear entrances of the theatre scene and not only plumbs the often unusual careers of publicists, designers, and columnists, but pokes around the nuts-and-bolts of wardrobe and prop creation, the resale market for old Playbills, the NY Public Library's herculean task of preserving every review they can lay hands on, and the private, frequently touching lives of ordinary vendors and suppliers who, just by being a part of the district's daily routine, seem to number among the happiest and most colorful people on the planet. As he points out in his Introduction, he wrote this book because he found these characters intensely interesting, worthier of more than the meager recognition they usually receive, and set out to correct that. He's done a beautiful--and highly readable--job. We are all richer for this off-beat labor of love.

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Educational and entertaining, this book contains snippets of life that reflect hard work and humor, love of nature, and the role of friends and family in the shaping of a life. While describing the hardships of life at an earlier period in our history, to which many older adults can relate, the book is all up-to-date in its moments dedicated to the stories of great outdoors and its wildlife—moments of innocence and awakening, that reflect how perennial and endurable childhood times really are. Some of the tales are sad, some are hilarious, some refer to potentially dangerous adventures, but all carry that charming trait of simplicity with which the writer manages to hold our attention throughout.

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He came from a strange land, far, far away.......2004-09-14

A.T. Hope grew up in another world where there were no video games or cable television, no satellites or ICBMs. In fact, his world had not any television, color or black and white.
Scuffletown is the story of real life in this other world, a world before Sputnikk and men on the moon, before Toyotas and Hondas, Suzukis and Yamahas. This is the story of a young man who grew up with his family with no air-conditioning and the only early warning given for hurricanes was a neighbor with a radio and a voice strong enough to holler out the news just hours before the storm hit.
Hope doesn't try to compare his world to ours, he just tells it as it was -- and that was pretty amazing.

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