ABSTRACT
The Nanotech Act emphasizes research and development leading to technology transfer from research laboratories to the commercial sector, e.g., via startup companies. value of a trademark lies in the public perception of quality associated with products from a particular company. Trade secrets are most similar to patents in that the same subject matter could be protected either as a trade secret or as a patent. Trade secrets have the advantage of potentially lasting forever, while patents have a limited term. A patentee has the right to sue an infringer in a United States federal court. “Atoms on a small scale behave like nothing on a large scale, for they satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics,” said Richard Feynman in 1959. The patent application should ideally contain a clear definition of every potentially ambiguous term that appears in the claims, preferably in a separate paragraph for each term beginning with the term set out in quotes.
