Product Description
This is the new updated and expanded third edition of the classic work. 454 pages, hardcover, red leather with silver stamping. This book is a practical guide to the use of patents as effective business tools. That is, this book is written for businessmen and attorneys who are not intellectual property specialists, but who do have opportunities that can be pursued by practical patent strategies. Other areas of intellectual property law are also touched upo… More >>
Patent Strategies for Business
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I have the third edition as published in 1997, at a much higher price than the current book. This book was useless even in 1997.
The author believes in accreting, not revising. So chapter 13 was entitled “New Developments 1995″, and chapter 31 entitled “New Developments: 1996 and Early 1997″. In between is a disorganized hodgepdge of articles about software, medical devices, foreign filings, and so on. The style of writing is discursive, with almost no diagrams (only one chapter out of 31 has any diagrams at all) and no summaries or bullet point lists to help a busy patent practitioner.
The material itself generally is (i) outdated, (ii) well-known to patent attorneys, and/or (iii) too disorganized and episodic to give a layperson any useful understanding of patent strategy.
I strongly suspect that the glowing reviews elsewhere on this page are written by the author’s friends and family, if not the author himself. When I move to a new office a few weeks from now, this book will be heading off my bookshelf and deep into my garage — if it’s lucky.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book has four reviews that give it 5 stars. The Patents are Business Tools “review” that gives it no stars is taken, at least in part, from the preface to the book. The Author Makes Free Update Articles review, which gives the book 5 stars, is written by the author.
I just received this book today and have only read the first 50 pages. I’m dissapointed that I’ve already discovered 4 or 5 errors in the text – missing or incorrect words. Some sections are well written and others look like they were dictated, but not proof-read. I have the third edition.
It’s puzzling that over 60 pages are used to reprint the Patent and Trademark Office’s Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions. These are available on the web at http://www.uspto.gov/ for free.
It’s even more puzzling that the Appendix includes a Bill proposed to Congress in 1995. The third edition went to press in late 1997.
The preface to the third edition says: “A word of caution: . . . many complicated legal technicalities are glossed over or not discussed in this book, in an effort to communicate fundamental strategies. . . (Also, any part of this book may be obsolete or othewise in error at the time you read it).” I agree with the author on these points.
My advice is to read a chapter or two from the book before you buy it. If you buy it online without seeing it first, you may be surprised by how much it differs from the glowing reviews.
Rating: 1 / 5
“Stephen Glazier’s book … is a field manual for the intellectual property strategist to start thinking and acting … Glazier’s book is one of the few sources which makes the effort to approach the patent field as a matter of strategy rather than as a matter of … how the authorities line up on each particular legal issue … Glazier’s book lets the reader understand in a brief and manageable way how things work in the patent field … The writer wishes Glazier would convert his book into a multi-volume loose leaf series for which there is surely strong need and probably no better potential author or editor.” — review from Intellectual Property Rights News, vol. 2, no. 3.
Rating: 5 / 5
The sub-title of this work is “Third Edition,” which apparently came out in 1997, based on the date of the “Preface to the Third Edition” but its publication date is given as 2003. Since things have changed a great deal in the patent arena since 1997, this book is far less useful than would be one actually revised and republished in 2003. I’m returning this book and demanding a full refund.
Rating: 1 / 5
“Stephen Glazier’s book … is a field manual for the intellectual property strategist to start thinking and acting … Glazier’s book is one of the few sources which makes the effort to approach the patent field as a matter of strategy rather than as a matter of … how the authorities line up on each particular legal issue … Glazier’s book lets the reader understand in a brief and manageable way how things work in the patent field … The writer wishes Glazier would convert his book into a multi-volume loose leaf series for which there is surely strong need and probably no better potential author or editor.” — review from Intellectual Property Rights News, vol. 2, no. 3.
Rating: 5 / 5