Monopoly Protection: The 90-Minute Guide to Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

by John S. Ferrell, Esq.

Overview

Ideal for any professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, Monopoly Protection: The 90 Minute Guide to Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets presents a basic overview of these key components.

Spend about an hour or so with patent strategist John S. Ferrell, Esq. as he draws upon years of real-life experience to provide you with insight into issues such as how to decide when an invention is worth patenting, how to select a strong trademark, the purpose of registering a copyright, and how to protect a trade secret.

Monopoly Protection: The 90 Minute Guide to Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets presents a basic overview of fundamentals of intellectual property.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045374330
Publisher:	John S. Ferrell, Esq.
Publication date:	09/26/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

John Ferrell is a founding partner of Carr & Ferrell LLP, one of Silicon Valley's foremost technology law firms, and specializes in patent and intellectual property law matters. He is the Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group.
Mr. Ferrell's practice focuses on helping emerging and mid-sized companies create market monopolies by organizing and leveraging intellectual property assets. In addition, Mr. Ferrell's practice includes patent opinion and litigation analysis, as well as trademark, copyright and trade secret matters. As a leading Menlo Park patent attorney, Mr. Ferrell has represented companies in a variety of fields, including semiconductors, communications, computers, software, social networking, wireless, bioengineering, and eco-engineering.
Distinguished by his demonstrated technical and legal expertise, Mr. Ferrell has been noted in the Silicon Valley Business Journal list of Who's Who in Silicon Valley and Northern California's Super Lawyers. He was also listed by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of California's top Rainmakers, by San Jose Magazine as one of Silicon Valley's top Legal Eagles, and by San Francisco Magazine as one of Northern California's top lawyers. Additionally, under his leadership, the firm was recently recognized by Corporate Counsel Magazine as a "Go to Law Firm for Intellectual Property." Mr. Ferrell has received an AV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell® (a representation of the highest level of professional excellence). Over the past decade, Mr. Ferrell has presented and spoken about patent and intellectual property issues at both legal and technology business forums around the globe.
In addition to practicing law, Mr. Ferrell is an active technology investor and member of The Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed fund organization.