Patent fundamentals for scientists and engineers - Gordon, Thomas T. (Boca Raton, Fla. CRC Press, 2013)
ch. 1. Patents as intellectual property -- ch. 2. Patents : history, philosophy, and purpose -- ch. 3. The U.S. patent system -- ch. 4. The Canadian patent system -- ch. 5. The patentable invention -- ch. 6. The evolution of a patent -- ch. 7. The patent document as technical literature -- ch. 8. The basic principles of patent searching -- ch. 9. Patent searching in the 21st century -- ch. 10. Patents as legal documents -- ch. 11. Patent information from the Internet -- ch. 12. Importance of record keeping -- ch. 13. Patents around the world -- ch. 14. America Invents Act.
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Keywords: Patents; Patents -- United States; Patent laws and legislation; Inventions; Electronic books