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Introduction to Intellectual Property (OpenStax)

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

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The Foundations of Patent Protection
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The Weakness of Early Patent Systems
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The Role of the U.S. Legal System
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What the U.S. Patent System Wrought
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Patent-Eligible Inventions
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Criteria for Patenting
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Other Types of Patents
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The Patenting Process
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The Right to Enforce Patents
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Patent Litigation
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Pretrial Procedures
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Trial
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Post-Trial Procedures
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Appeals
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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
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Patent Trolls and Efforts to Thwart Them
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The Basics of Copyright
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Early Copyright Systems
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Copyright in America
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Eligible Works
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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
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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