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"At present, it is known that intangible resources, or intellectual capital, are the drivers of economic growth. IPStreet.com's tools can help you understand if your idea is patentable, how to patent an idea, how to conduct a patent search to it's full potential and understand the analytics behind the patent search. We can help with understanding patent duration, patent value and connecting you with an experienced patent lawyer. One of its components is the human resources. Human resources are the main source of knowledge of firms, and it is considered a critical resource, maybe the most important one (Johanson, 2005; Marr and Roos, 2005). For this reason, its management and its development are crucial to increase the value of the firm. The objective of this paper is to analyse the influence that the training expenses have over the total value of the intangibles. From the business management, the expenditure on training are an investment." (Lidia García-Zambrano et al). Let IPstreet.com help you with your HR Director needs.

Utility patents protect inventions that are a novel, nonobvious, and useful, such as: process innovations, machine innovations, manufacturing innovations, compositions of matter, or incremental improvements from foundational innovations. The three patentability requirements: New and Novel: For a United States patent the invention must never have been made public in any way, anywhere in the world, a year before the date on which an application for a patent is filed. In other countries, you have no one year grace period and require absolute novelty. Original and Nonobvious: An invention involves an inventive step if, when compared with what is already known, it would not be obvious to someone with a good knowledge and experience of the subject, for example, if you just make cosmetic changes that is obvious. Useful: This means that the invention must take the practical form of an apparatus or device, it has to do something.

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