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.
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