Engineers encounter various forms of contracts at nearly every turn in their careers. It is not the purpose of this book to make engineers independent of legal advice, but it is designed to help them avoid the most fundamental pitfalls. One does not need to take a lawyer on every motor trip to tell him what the speed limits are! A major goal of this book is to enhance an engineer’s ability to communicate contractual issues to a lawyer and to help the engineer to better understand the lawyer’s advice.
The plan of this book is to leverage the concepts of contracts to introduce the reader to other subjects such as intellectual property (including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets). Also included under the contract concept ...
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