"This book explains how to assess the novelty of an idea and do patent searches at little or no cost under the recently-adopted first-to-file rules. Patent Searching Made easy provides information on how to quickly research any new idea to see whether anyone has already patented it; decide on the best keywords to describe an invention and target a search; classify an invention based on the U.S. Patent Classification System; figure out whether an idea...

"The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are-our DNA"--

New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history--and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light...