title: The intellectual property cookbook: a guide for the novice health-care telemedicine provider working with industry.
abstract: Telemedicine is a new field and many health-care providers are developing their own products with the help of industry. Most practitioners are novices in the legal tools necessary to protect their own work with regard to any future commercialization. To summarize these issues for the telemedicine practitioner, a review of intellectual property protection has been performed. Intellectual property can be protected by tools such as copyrights, patents, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, integrated circuit topographies and industrial design. Knowledge of the intellectual property background should allow telemedicine providers to protect their own work when working with industry.
authors.affiliation: College of Optometry, University of Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Beauregard
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beauregard
mesh_terms: D003309:Copyright / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D018973:Intellectual Property; D010330:Patents as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*