Protecting Ideas and New Products

Abstract

Are companies effectively protecting new product ideas by using the patent system? Company awareness of the need to use the system to protect new ideas/concepts is focused on, the practical benefits accruing to companies when patents are obtained are discussed, and the necessity for companies to search patent information already in existence is referred to. Comments are made about the present system, with observations on how the recent White Paper, “Intellectual Property and Innovation” presages changes in the patent system law.

Citation

Moss, C.D. and Evans, A. (1987), "Protecting Ideas and New Products", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 87 No. 9/10, pp. 21-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb057492