THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR PROTECTING YOUR MILLION DOLLAR IDEA is designed for independent inventors, small businesses, entrepreneurs -- everyone who needs to know the basics of patent, trademark and copyright law. This book provides a strategy for preventing idea theft and making sure that potentially profitable ideas are protected by contracts, patents, trademarks and copyrights.

Jam-packed with important information and containing every form you will need to protect your Million Dollar Idea, this priceless volume needs to be on your bookshelf if you are an inventor, a writer, a businessperson with unique ideas. It can save you heartache, confusion, and many thousands of hours and dollars!

In one comprehensive, insightful, easy-to-read volume you can find the answers to every vital question surrounding your idea of a lifetime -- questions like:

     +  What is the real value of a non-disclosure agreement?
     +  When is an invention actually made?
     +  How do I make sure everyone knows my idea is patented?
     +  Can I have multiple patents on a single idea? And if so, should I?
     +  Why should I obtain a Federal trademark registration?
     +  Which is better -- to license or to sell the rights to my idea?

...and many, many more money-making, money-saving questions -- and answers.

John J. Connors is a distinguished patent attorney with over a quarter-century of hands-on experience in creating value for inventors and others through the acquisition of property and contractual rights in their ideas. After working as in-house patent counsel for giant corporations, in 1983 he founded the law firm that bears his name, and, through a network of domestic and international intellectual property attorneys, he guides the fortunes of many -- inventors and other creative people -- building long-term financial value in their ideas.

Mr. Connors is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He has lectured on intellectual property at colleges and universities throughout Southern California, and he currently serves as a director of ICU Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ).