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Patents and know-how: protecting inventions

Building a Business · Intellectual property · 7 lessons · 20 questions · 25-min video

Robert Anderson on patents: the tests an invention must pass, how an application works, what can never be patented, how a boy's homemade board sank the windsurfer patent, and keeping know-how secret.

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From the lecture by Robert Anderson (Intellectual property lawyer at Hogan Lovells), Building a Business 2014, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Every lesson links to its part of the video on YouTube.

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