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      Contracts for Engineers book

      Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics

      Contracts for Engineers

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      Contracts for Engineers book

      Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics
      ByRobert D. Hunter
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 31 January 2017
      Pub. Location Boca Raton
      Imprint CRC Press
      DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/b11249
      Pages 368
      eBook ISBN 9781315217345
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Engineering & Technology
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      Hunter, R.D. (2012). Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b11249

      ABSTRACT

      Engineers encounter different types of contracts at nearly every turn in their careers. Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics is a tool to enhance their ability to communicate contractual issues to lawyers—and then better understand the legal advice they receive.

      Building on its exploration of contracts, this book expands discussion to:

      • Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property issues
      • Development of standards and the bodies that govern them, as well as conformity assessment and accreditation
      • Ethics at both the micro and macro levels—a concept under major scrutiny after several major disasters, including the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the collapse of Boston’s Big Dig, and a coal-mining accident that resulted in many deaths

      With a brief introduction to common law contracts and their underlying principles, including basic examples, the book presents a sample of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) regarding the sale of goods. It evaluates elements of the different contracts that engineers commonly encounter, such as employee and associated consulting agreements and contracts involved in construction and government.

      Approaching intellectual property from a contract perspective, this reference focuses on the many different types of patents and their role in commerce. It touches on the application of trademarks and recent developments in the use of copyright as a form of contract and explains the process of obtaining patents, including the rationale for investing in them. Ethical standards receive special attention, which includes a review of several prominent professional codes of ethics and conduct for both organizations and individual engineers, particularly officers and higher-level managers.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Common Law Contracts

      chapter 2|10 pages

      Sales Contracts under the Uniform Commercial Code

      chapter 3|32 pages

      Contracts of Special Interest to Engineers

      chapter 4|21 pages

      Intellectual Property: Emphasis on Patents

      chapter 5|10 pages

      Patent Processes

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Copyright

      chapter 7|8 pages

      Trade Secrets

      chapter 8|10 pages

      Trademarks

      chapter 9|13 pages

      Standards, Codes, and Regulations

      chapter 10|16 pages

      Standards Bodies and Their Products

      chapter 11|12 pages

      Development of Standards, Codes, and Regulations

      chapter 12|13 pages

      Conformity Assessment

      chapter 13|9 pages

      Accreditation

      chapter 14|29 pages

      Ethics for Individual Engineers

      chapter 15|27 pages

      Ethics for Organizations

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