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Your ideas can be turned into income streams if you manage them correctly and protect them from theft and unauthorized use. The author, an articulate attorney with a good speaking voice, provides an encyclopedic primer on navigating in the world of intellectual property. As in the other volumes in the Rich Dad's Advisors series, the author surveys the history and breadth of this topic before moving into a smoothly organized account of detailed information. Delivered with a speaking style that is as inviting as it is cautionary, the author's message is to pay attention to your intangible creations and do the hard work of protecting them, so you will profit from your work. T.W. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine


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With an introduction by Robert T. Kiyosaki Since failing to know the rules can lead to disaster, this book will familiarize readers with the basics they need for protecting their company's critically important rights involving copyright, patents, trademarks, and all other aspects of intellectual property. Learn How to: - Turn your ideas into intellectual property assets - Identify and benefit from potential intellectual property assets that you may already own - Avoid inadvertently giving away your rights - Use your intellectual property to build barriers to your competition - Generate cash flow by licensing your intellectual properties to others - Use intellectual property to aid in raising capital, and as an alternative to raising capital


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In today's high-tech world, there are all sorts of new rules being formulated on a daily basis when it comes to protecting one's "rights" in the market. Software piracy, fair usage of documents, copyright protection--these are real concerns that cost companies millions of dollars each year. As such, understanding and maintaining rights in intellectual property is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the professional activities of the practicing technologist, manager, and entrepreneur. Protecting Your #1 Asset shows how valuable rights in intellectual property are unwittingly lost by seemingly innocent courses of action. Since failing to know the rules can lead to disaster, attorney Michael Lechter reveals important bits of protective information, including: · The basic categories of intellectual property· Patent, copyright, and trademark protection · Comparison of the different modes of intellectual property protection· Appendixes documenting the procedure for protecting intellectual property. Protecting Your #1 Asset will show how knowing how to protect your rights (and how not infringe on the rights of others) can be the difference between a big payday and financial ruin.

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Since failing to know the rules can lead to disaster, this book will familiarize readers with the basics they need for protecting their company's critically important rights involving copyright, patents, trademarks, and all other aspects of intellectual property.

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