Part of the MIT Open courseware initiative, this free online textbook was written by Robert H. Rines, a lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering. This interdisciplinary textbook is geared for engineers and scientists. It strives to help those who will be designing new and innovative things, as well as the business owners, financial folks and lawyers who will be supporting them. Rines uses examples where students can understand the legal and financial aspects of different technologies without having to be experts in those technologies.
MIT students taking the course Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas have been assigned this textbook.
This interdisciplinary textbook on the American patent system is designed for the scientists and engineers who will often be those who design new and innovative things as well as the business owners, lawyers and financial folks who help support them. The author uses examples where the technology can be understood by most professionals without sacrificing the information intended for those concerned with the legal and financial aspects of that technology.
The MIT course which relied upon this free business textbook was called Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas, a graduate-level course. The author, Robert H. Rines is a lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT.
Chapters from Create or Perish, The Case for Inventions and Patents
- The Origin and Development of The American Patent System
- The Role of the Patent Office and the Courts
- The Patent Law
- Patents in Action (History of the Basic Telephone Patent)
- The Rights, Obligations, and Problems of Inventors
- The Future of American Patents
- The Modernization of Patent Systems
- Court Modernization for Aiding the Patent System and the Law
- A Formula for Economic Decline
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Create or Perish, The Case for Inventions and Patents
