The author wrote this book for independent inventors, small businesses, entrepreneurs - everyone who needs to know the basics of patent, trademark and copyright law. Click here to read the table of contents.

This book gives you a strategy for protecting your ideas with contracts, patents, trademarks and copyrights. It is a clear, concise and easy-to-read guidebook, complete with most of the forms needed, suggested contract language - everything! - thousands of dollars worth of information for less than the price of a good dinner.

If you're an inventor, entrepreneur, or businessperson, this book gives you almost everything you'll need to minimize or avoid the sometimes tragic mistakes so many make. Most importantly, you need to avoid the unwitting and unnecessary loss of invaluable property rights in new, commercially valuable ideas because they're not legally protected. The failure to obtain expertly written patents and contracts, or not to register, use or mark properly trademarks and copyrights, may result in the loss of property rights.

You need to protect your million dollar idea from those who would take it and use it and claim it as their own.

The book, The Ten Commandments for Protecting Your Million Dollar Idea, guides you through the legal maze you must traverse. This guidebook is written by a distinguished patent attorney who has authored hundreds of patent applications, served as a director of startups and publicly traded companies (see article), advising his clients how to make money with their ideas while avoiding litigation. Only once a patent dispute he was resolving went to a jury because a settlement could not be reached. And the jury awarded his client in excess of a million dollars.

The author shares his experience and knowledge in this comprehensive yet concise, easy-to-read guidebook. It's a "must read" and a "ready reference" for every inventor, whether a first-timer or seasoned entrepreneur! It's a mandatory business handbook for small business owners, who will discover that they can enhance the value of their businesses by legally protecting their trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrightable works. Inventors and entrepreneurs will benefit by avoiding pitfalls like those encountered by the author as he served as a director of startup companies.