In This Presentation:
- Introduction
- Intellectual Property (IP) Basics
- IP Strategy
- IP Encountered by Health Care Providers
- Securing Ownership of IP Assets
- Managing/Registering IP Rights and Mitigating Infringement Risks
- IP Due Diligence In Business Transactions
- Q&A
- Excerpt from Intellectual Property (IP) Basics:
•A patent only lets the owner of the patent exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, importing or selling the claimed invention
-A patent does not mean you can practice your invention
•Patents protect ideas, rather than creative expression per se
•Defined by federal law
•U.S. Constitution Art. 1, Section 8
•35 U.S.C. § § 101, et. seq.
•37 C.F.R. § § 1.1, et. seq.
•Manual of Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP)
•Limited term (20 years from filing)
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