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Patents and intellectual property (IP) are really the province of your Legal department, though often R&D is either given outright ownership, or at least shares in driving the bus. This chapter is not meant to be a comprehensive treatment of patents and IP. Rather, here are a few things that you need to know about patents and IP in order to function as an R&D leader.
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Spiro, C.L. (2018). Patents and Intellectual Property. In: From Bench to Boardroom. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64155-3_13
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