A well-designed reference work for anyone who needs a quick understanding of the patenting process.
A concise guide to the maddening complexities of patent law.
Patent lawyer Klinck, in the introduction to his debut, says that despite a sharp proliferation in patent litigation, most people know little about the law involved. To put it mildly, he says, “Patent litigation can be daunting to the uninitiated.” This primer gives a general overview of patent law and process, covering basic concepts and substantive legal rules as well as intricacies of litigation, from the filing of a claim to the appeals process. For readers looking for a straightforward breakdown of the basics, the author helpfully begins by describing what a patent is, how one is acquired, and what types of things one can patent. For the more legally savvy, Klinck details different kinds of patent infringement as well as standards for proof and classic defenses against infringement claims. Each chapter comes with an instructive synopsis. Overall, the author structures the book so that it needn’t be read sequentially, making it a valuable and user-friendly reference. The first part even provides a glossary of key terms, or what the author calls “patent litigation lingo.” The author designed this reference work for both the expert and the newcomer, so it won’t help readers trying to disambiguate some of the thornier problems of patent law (plant patents, for example, remain a stubborn mystery). However, it’s not intended for that purpose; instead, it’s an accessible overview for investors and small-business owners confronted by patent issues they don’t understand. It’s hard to imagine the prose being any clearer or the book being any easier to navigate; Klinck even includes a series of appendices that answer frequently asked questions, explain how to craft a response to an infringement claim, and direct readers to additional informational resources.
A well-designed reference work for anyone who needs a quick understanding of the patenting process.Pub Date: Dec. 4, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5177-1934-0
Page Count: 206
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: Dec. 14, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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