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CONTENTS

About the Author ix

Preface: Patents are Business Tools x

To Order This Book xv

Acknowledgments xvii

I. Business Strategy

1. Strategic Management of Intellectual Property Assets 1

2. How a Corporation Can Invent-On-Demand: The Rules of Virtual Genius 8

3. Inventing Around Your Competitor's Patents, and Other Patent Strategies 29

4. How to Enforce Disposability with Patents 38

5. Get Your Patents on the Fast Track 46

6. Tips for Patent Licenses 48

II. Financing Technology Companies

7. Patent Due Diligence for the Finance of

Technology Companies 55

8. Patents for New Business Plans 68

III. Litigation and Liability

9. Patent Litigation as a Business Tool 72

10. Personal Liability of Officers and Directors for Corporate Infringement (Civil and Criminal) 95

IV. New Developments

11. Software and Data Patents: Developments of 1994 102

12. The New Paradigm For Software and Financial Products: Stac Electronics 108

13. New Developments 1995: Globalization and Software 111

14. The New "Design Around" Opinion Letters 127

V. Specific Industries

A. Telecommunications

15. Patents for New Telecommunication Services 134

B. Financial Products

16. Patents For Program Trading Strategies and Other Financial Products 150

C. Software

17. Software Patents: Historical Development and the Limits of Copyrights 160

18. Patents for Software and Smart Equipment 173

19. Who Really Owns "Your" Software? 181

20. Patents for Software Algorithms 188

D. Medical Devices, Doctors and Hospitals

21. How to Bring a New Medical Product to Market 190

22. How Foreign Medical Device Companies Can Penetrate the U.S. Market 197

23. Patents as a Profit Center for Hospitals 204

VI. Global Strategies

24. U.S. Patents for Foreign Companies 213

25. Foreign Patents for U.S. Companies 224

VII. The GATT Amendments to the U.S. Patent Statute (see pages 121 - 123 herein)

APPENDICES:

1. Fixing the Patent Statute: Title and Tort 231

2. The U.S. Patent Statute on the Head of a Pin 239

3. The CMA Patent 242

4. The Alappat Patent 243

5. The Arrhythmia Patent 244

6. The Stac Electronics Patent 245