Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you determine if you can patent your invention and understand patent law, all the way to enforcing and maintaining your patent and marketing and licensing your invention. Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in intellectual property law, the 15th edition also provides the latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...

Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. “Wiki Government” explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can connect the expertise of the many to the power of the few. In the process, she reveals what it takes to innovate in government. Launched...