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This new title in the Gale Research stable offers advice on all stages of product development, from patenting to trade show exhibits. The guidebook also includes samples of all the necessary forms for filing patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Each chapter lists appropriate contact information for patent attorneys and agents (as well as how to do without them), sources of commercial financing, national and regional organizations for inventors, and pertinent publications. An appendix includes the complete Index to the US Patent Classification. A master index guides the user comfortably through the wealth of material. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Library Journal Review

This compilation volume contains much worthwhile material in its 922 pages, including sample forms; lists of inventor's associations; federal, state, and regional assistance agencies; over 500 venture capital firms; bibliographies; trade shows; the Patent Office telephone directory; a list of registered patent atorneys and agents; the Patent Classification List; and an 80-page how-to manual. Many of the categories are culled from other Gale publications, and over half the work is reprints of the Patent Classification List and Registered Attorneys and Agents lists, both depository documents available for purchase from the Government Printing Office for a total of $29. Levy's well-written how-to manual is as good as most patent guides, such as Thomas DeForest's Inventor's Guide to Successful Patent Applications (TAB, 1988), but not as good as Tony Husch & Linda Fonst's That's a Great Idea (Ten Speed Pr., 1987). This will be useful for libraries that seek the convenience of a single volume that can be profitably placed in either the circulating or reference collection.-- Patrick J. Brunet, Univ. of Wisconsin Lib., La Crosse (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Levy and Gale Research have created an excellent example of a derived text. Levy has assembled a comprehensive guide to the process of patenting an invention in the US. He has made abundant use of various volumes of Gale's Encyclopedia of Associations and of several federal documents from the Patent and Trademark Office (found in most depository libraries) in a way that is comprehensible to the serious user. To list but a few, there are sections on patent attorneys, invention consultants and research centers, invention publications, US patent classification schedules, forms, funding sources, and regional and state innovation programs. The work supplements such titles as R.D. Foltz's Protecting Engineering Ideas & Inventions (CH, Apr'88), which provides a more serious discussion of the invention process, and D. Pressman's Patent It Yourself (rev. 2nd ed., 1989), which gives a popular account. The book is to be a biennial publication and has a useful index. Recommended for occasional purchase by libraries serving the general public or an engineering and science faculty. -J. M. Robson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Richard C. Levy has forged a career as an inventor and an author as the president of Richard C. Levy and Associates, based in Bethesda, Md., a company that develops toys and games. For years, more than 50 of Levi's ideas have been adapted to prctical use by such toy companies as Milton Bradley, Mattel, and Tyco.

With family help Richard Levy developed a game called Adverteasing, in which players must guess which advertisement belong with which products. Levy also developed Advertising Jr. for younger game players.

Levy directed his inventive prowess into a reference source entitled Inventing & Patenting Sourcebook. This work is a guide for inventors in how to turn their ideas into practical ways of making money. He has also passed along his knowledge of the inventioon process through appearances at such events as IBM's Inventor Dinner and the National Science Foundation's Conference on Industrial Science and Technological Innovation. Recently, the Small Business Association recognized Levy, bestowing upon him its Innovation Award.

(Bowker Author Biography)