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Reference Sources and Services

Notes 6. Post installation:
(a) Does the vendor gives performance/service warranty?
(b) Post installation support from the vendor.

Visit various sites including WTO and study various patent laws.

Self Assessment
State whether the following statements are true or false:
5. An evaluation is basically a judgement of worth.
6. Features of the software are the various computer platform needed to run the software, i.e.,
server, wireless connectivity, hard disc space needed, etc.

14.5 Summary

• The ability to evaluate the return on our investment gives us the basis on which to choose
between alternative.
• The grant and enforcement of patents are governed by national laws, and also by international
treaties, where those treaties have been given effect in national laws.
• It is common for companies engaged in complex technical fields to enter into dozens of license
agreements associated with the production of a single product. Moreover, it is equally common
for competitors in such fields to license patents to each other under cross-licensing agreements
in order to share the benefits of using each other’s patented inventions.

• The ability to assign ownership rights increases the liquidity of a patent as property. Inventors
can obtain patents and then sell them to third parties. The third parties then own the patents
and have the same rights to prevent others from exploiting the claimed inventions, as if they
had originally made the inventions themselves.

14.6 Keywords

TRIP : Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
WTO : World Trade Organization

14.7 Review Questions

1. Explain the development of abstracting services with its function.
2. Explain function and types of patents.
3. Define ownership of patents.
4. What is governing laws of patents.
5. Discuss in detail criteria of evaluation of a software for libraries.

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