Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks For Dummies, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-470-33945-9
Paperback
384 pages
August 2008
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Henri Charmasson is an attorney with a 35-year career in the
field of intellectual property (IP) law. He has been a naming
adviser to major corporations. Henri is also an inventor with his
name on 15 U.S. patents and an entrepreneur who sits on the board
of several small business corporations. In his early engineering
career, Henri designed computer hardware. Henri has authored
several articles and delivered lectures on patent, copyright,
trademark and trade secret topics, and written an authoritative
treatise about the art of naming companies and branding new
products. Born, raised, and educated in sunny Provence, France,
he’s found in California the ideal place to exert his
enterprising spirit.
John Buchaca, also an Intellectual Property law attorney, is a former software engineer and occasional inventor, and has worked with Henri for more than 15 years. Indeed, when Henri wrote the first edition of this book, John regarded himself as the “first dummy.” Before becoming a lawyer, he worked in ocean acoustics analysis and modeling and computer programming. His undergraduate degree is in applied mathematics. But his highest claim to fame (according to Henri) is to be married to Henri’s daughter and to be the father of two of Henri’s grandchildren. He lives in San Diego, California where he is a partner at Charmasson, Buchaca & Leach, LLP, an IP law firm.