Skip to content
Hub Nexus
All publications

Introduction to Intellectual Property (OpenStax)

An OpenStax textbook under CC BY 4.0, a section a page, in reading order.

45 pagesUpdated

Start reading

Following means one email when a page is added — nothing when a page changes.

Following means one email when a page is added — nothing when a page changes.

Pages

Page 1CC BY 4.0
The Foundations of Patent Protection
Page 2CC BY 4.0
The Weakness of Early Patent Systems
Page 4CC BY 4.0
The Role of the U.S. Legal System
Page 5CC BY 4.0
What the U.S. Patent System Wrought
Page 6CC BY 4.0
Patent-Eligible Inventions
Page 7CC BY 4.0
Criteria for Patenting
Page 8CC BY 4.0
Other Types of Patents
Page 9CC BY 4.0
The Patenting Process
Page 10CC BY 4.0
The Right to Enforce Patents
Page 12CC BY 4.0
Patent Litigation
Page 13CC BY 4.0
Pretrial Procedures
Page 14CC BY 4.0
Trial
Page 15CC BY 4.0
Post-Trial Procedures
Page 16CC BY 4.0
Appeals
Page 17CC BY 4.0
A thriving business exists in the United States providing adversaries the resources to conduct mediations or arbitrations. Retired or former judges or lawyers are available to serve as mediators or arbitrators. ADR is an increasingly popular way to resolve disputes because it is often faster, less e
Page 18CC BY 4.0
Patent Trolls and Efforts to Thwart Them
Page 19CC BY 4.0
The Basics of Copyright
Page 20CC BY 4.0
Early Copyright Systems
Page 21CC BY 4.0
Copyright in America
Page 22CC BY 4.0
Eligible Works
Page 23CC BY 4.0
Only the author of a copyrighted book, for example, can decide to make copies of (i.e., publish) the work and prepare derivatives of the book, such as a movie version of it. If any person other than the author and copyright owner were to make a movie based on the book, that person would infringe the
Page 24CC BY 4.0
Derived from the common law of trespass, infringement of a copyright or any other intellectual property right occurs when a person violates the exclusive rights of its owner. The term gets its meaning from the word “fringe”—implying a boundary that cannot be crossed. As laid out in Sections 106 thro