• disassembly of critical ROM routines
• keyboard scanning
• UART, RS-232 and modern
• clock/calendar chip
• cassette and RAM file structure
• interrupt handling
• 8085 instruction set
• explanation of SAVEM, LOADM, CALL
• explanation of INP, OUT, PEEK, and POKE
• I/O port map
• power supplies

Commented ROM routine listings, detailed hardware schematics and numerous figures are provided throughout the book. Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 also contains invaluable appendices and is fully indexed. No Model 100 owner, whether novice or expert, should be without this book.

• By Carl Oppedahl
• copyright 1985
• 334 pages
• 9 inches by 6 inches by ¾ inch
• ISBN:  0-938862-31-6

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With The Telephone Book as your guide, you can get to know your phone system and use that knowledge to your advantage. This book offers information and sound advice to you as a residential or business phone customer that will enable you to take charge and make the right choices concerning new service, installation, repairs, long-distance carriers, phone selection, and more. It is written in a format that makes it easy to find the information you need without reading the entire book. Among the many topics covered are:

• Equal Access
• Long-distance calling including 10XXX codes
• Buying versus renting phones
• Tips on selecting phones and answering machines
• Decoding FCC numbers
• Local phone service and local operating companies
• Travel calling and pay phones
• Installation and wiring, including 2-line installation
• Troubleshooting and repair
• Technical information
• Consumer activism

Numerous case studies illustrate how you can use the information in this book to reduce the cost of phone service and protect yourself against paying fees that are too high and sometimes unnecessary. The Telephone Book is a must for all telephone customers.

“Carl Oppedahl is the kind of man who installs telephones for fun.” — New York Times

“This book Is a valuable tool for consumers In the changing world of telecommunications.” – New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)

“This book will do more than save you money.  Its no-nonsense language cuts through much of the confused jargon that has intimidated customers since the breakup of Ma Bell.  You’ll come away pleasantly surprised or relieved that you are smarter than you’ve been conditioned to believe by industry ‘experts’.” — Kathleen F. O’Reilly, Executive Director, Citizen’s Utility Board of Wisconsin

“Whether or not it was a good idea to break up Ma Bell, the only way to recreate the benefits of the old Bell System is by learning how to save money and maintain the quality of service in today’s complicated environment.  This book should help you understand how the post-divestiture telephone marketplace can work for you.” — Consumer Federation of America, Gene Kimmelman, President

• By Carl Oppedahl
• Copyright 1987
• 308 pages
• 9 inches by 6 inches by 5/8 inch
• ISBN:  0-98862-92-8

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An uncomplicated guide to telephone sanity, complete with buying advice and Ratings from Consumer Reports on telephones and answering machines.

Since deregulation, the telephone system has become a costly maze of competing models and services. Too often consumers enter the telephone marketplace without knowing how to get good service at the best possible price.

Here in one volume is the information you need to make the right choices on:

• long-distance service,
• telephones, fax and answering machines, and cellular phones, and
• in-home installation and repair.

You’ll learn how to read your telephone bills, select a long-distance carrier, cope with pay phones, and use your calling cards for maximum efficiency and economy. From cover to cover, The Phone Book helps you eliminate confusion and become a savvy telephone consumer.

Most important, The Phone Book demystifies telephone wiring and installation. By using a few basic tools and the book’s simple diagrams and clear, jargon-free instructions, you can learn how to do your own phone installation and wiring easily and safely.

Topics include:

• Long-distance service
• Local service
• In-home repair
• Installation and wiring
• Choosing equipment
• Competitive phone systems
• Cellular phones, answering machines, fax machines

Corl Oppedahl is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a practicing patent attorney. As a consumer activist, he has championed the interests of consumers in obtaining cost-effective telephone service.

The Phone Book is published by Consumer Reports Books, a division of Consumers Union of United States, Inc. Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, Is a nonprofit organization established in 1936 to provide consumers with information and advice on products, services, health, and personal finance.

• By Carl Oppedahl and the editors of Consumer Reports Books
• Copyright 1987, 1991
• 377 pages
• 9 inches by 6 inches by 1 inch
• ISBN:  0-89043-364-X

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This is the second edition of the book first published three years ago.  It is revised to bring things up to date and an important additional Receiving Office form has been added.

Anybody who regularly receives PCT correspondence from Receiving Offices, International Searching Authorities, or the International Bureau will find this book to be very helpful.  When any of the fifty most frequently received PCT forms arrives, you can flip this book open to the page for that form, and the book tells you:

• what dockets you can clear
• what new dockets to set
• what if anything needs to be told to the client
• what else you need to do
• whether the form is super important or is not very important

This book has a section detailing what dockets you should set when a new PCT application has just been filed.

Although the author is located in the US, this book is not US-specific.  It should be of equal interest to any PCT enthusiast anywhere in the world.  Here’s what readers say about this book:

• This book is a great investment. I find is very helpful!  Jessica B.
• I ordered/received my copy of the book last week, love it!  Kim M.
• The book is excellent and a great resource I use often!  Donna P.
• I have this book & love it Carl!  Kalina I.

The forms discussed include:

• two Power of Attorney forms
• sixteen forms relating to the Receiving Office
• fourteen forms relating to the International Bureau
• nine forms relating to the International Searching Authority
• eight forms relating to the International Preliminary Examining Authority
• two forms relating to the DO/EO/US

About the author: Carl Oppedahl has spent over thirty years serving patent clients. He is a founding member of Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC. He has served as an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School and University of Denver Law School, teaching advanced patent law. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and has been a Fellow of the Association. His law degree is from Harvard Law School. He holds an Amateur Extra class ham radio license. He has a BA with a double major in physics and mathematics, with honors, from Grinnell College. He has taught many dozens of continuing legal education courses about the Patent Cooperation Treaty. He is author of the Ant-Like Persistence blog.

• 216 pages
• 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
• Language:  English
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.41 pounds

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• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 374 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8438251996

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Simply put, this is the authoritative exegesis of the Paris Convention.  This book should be on the bookshelf of every intellectual property lawyer everywhere in the world.

The full title is:

GUIDE
TO THE APPLICATION OF THE

PARIS CONVENTION
FOR THE
PROTECTION OF
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

AS REVISED AT STOCKHOLM IN 1967

The Paris Convention began in 1883.  For 135 years it has permeated intellectual property law.  The increased globalization of commerce and intellectual property makes the Paris Convention more important now than ever before.

Most practitioners know of Article 4 of the Paris Convention, which establishes the familiar 12-month priority period for patents and the 6-month priority periods for industrial designs and trademarks.  Few practitioners, however, have actually read Article 4 and understood it fully, let alone the rest of the Convention.  There are many potential traps and pitfalls for practitioners in the attempt to perfect a priority claim.  For an example of a pitfall, see SAOSIT.

One person has given more thought to the Paris Convention and its history than any other, and it is G. H. C. Bodenhausen.  Fortunately for the intellectual property community, he memorialized his thoughts in this book.  Published in 1969 by WIPO, it fell out of print.  In this book, Bodenhausen discusses the entirety of the Paris Convention, article by article, with fascinating and detailed observations on every sentence and clause.  He writes not only on what a particular provision in the Treaty means for a filer going forward, but on the history or policy reasons for the provision and why it was worded the way it was.  It is no overstatement to say that any intellectual property practitioner, no matter where one are located geographically, no matter whether one’s practice is in patents, trademarks, or designs, should have Bodenhausen’s book on his or her bookshelf.

Bodenhausen’s extremely detailed exegesis of the all-important Article 4 should be required reading for every practitioner even if one lacks the determination or drive to read the rest of the book.  Those pages of the book by themselves justify the cost or effort of getting the book onto your desk.

Given that the book fell out of print, how may you get your own copy of the book?  One way to get your own copy of the Bodenhausen book is to go to the WIPO web page for the Bodenhausen book, and download a PDF copy of the book, and print it on your printer.  The PDF copies are available in your choice of English (255 pages, 6.01 inches by 8.98 inches, click here), French (265 pages, 5.83 inches by 8.96 inches, click here), Spanish (281 pages, 5.83 inches by 8.88 inches), and Japanese (267 pages, 5.75 inches by 8.72 inches).  The PDF files are a bit grainy, being scans at about 200 dots per inch of physical pages of books published in 1968.  But the price is right — you can get these for free.

A paperbound reprint from the PDF scan, with an ISBN of 978-9280503685 and a trim size of 6.1 by 9.1 inches, is sometimes available here or here.

Another way to get your own copy of the Bodenhausen book is from Penaya Publishing, available on this shopping cart.  This version is based upon a remastered typesetting of the book.  It is much clearer and easier to read than the somewhat grainy PDF images mentioned above.  The trim size is A4 (8.27 inches by 11.69 inches), and the book has 174 pages.

ISBN:  978-0984408443

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Prof. Georg Hendrik Christiaan Bodenhausen (born 11 July 1905, Utrecht) was a Dutch civil servant. He was director of the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) from 1963 to 1970, and the first director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 1970 to 1973.

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This book was once the authoritative guide to the preparation of patent drawings for filing in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This is USPTO’s own guide, which went out of print at the USPTO, along with two small new sections by an experienced practitioner (Carl Oppedahl of Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC), on best practices for creating drawings for electronic filing, with examples of ways that USPTO’s systems can degrade perfectly good drawings and tips for avoiding such problems, and on best practices for creating drawings for design patent applications.

• PROCESSING OF DRAWINGS
  • Review of Drawings by Office of Initial Patent Examination
  • Review by USPTO Draftsperson
  • On Examiner’s First (Non-Allowance) Action
  • On Examiner’s Subsequent Actions
  • On Allowance
  • After Allowance
• SELECTED U.S. LAWS AND RULES OF PRACTICE RELATING TO PATENT DRAWINGS
  • 35 USC § 113 Drawings
  • 37 CFR § 1.58 Chemical and mathematical formulae and tables
  • 37 CFR § 1.74 Reference to drawings
  • 37 CFR § 1.81 Drawings required in patent application
  • 37 CFR § 1.83 Content of drawing
  • 37 CFR § 1.84 Standards for drawings
  • 37 CFR § 1.85 Corrections to drawings
  • 37 CFR § 1.96 Submission of computer program listings
  • 37 CFR § 1.121 Manner of making amendments in applications
  • 37 CFR § 1.151 Rules applicable [Designs]
  • 37 CFR § 1.152 Design drawings
  • 37 CFR § 1.161 Rules applicable [Plants]
  • 37 CFR § 1.165 Plant drawings
  • 37 CFR § 1.171 Application for reissue
  • 37 CFR § 1.173 Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments
  • 37 CFR § 1.211 Publication of applications
  • 37 CFR § 1.215 Patent application publication
  • 37 CFR § 1.437 The drawings [International Applications]
  • 37 CFR § 1.530 Statement by patent owner in ex parte reexamination; amendment by patent owner in ex parte or inter partes reexamination; inventorship change in ex parte or inter partes reexamination
• Article 7 of Patent Cooperation Treaty and Selected PCT Rules Pertaining to Drawings
• Symbols
• Drawing Examples
  • Black ink
  • Black ink [computer screen image]
  • Identification of drawings
  • Graphic forms in drawings [chemical formulae]
  • Graphic forms in drawings [waveforms]
  • Graphic forms in drawings [DNA structures]
  • Views
  • Exploded views
  • Partial views
  • Sectional views
  • Alternate position
  • Modified forms
  • Arrangement of views
  • Front page view
  • Character of lines, numbers, and letters
  • Shading [spaced lines]
  • Shading [stippling]
  • Symbols
  • Legends
  • Numbers, letters, and reference characters
  • Lead lines
  • Arrows
  • Copyright or Mask Work Notice
  • Numbering of sheets of drawings
  • Numbering of views

Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Penaya Publishing
ISBN: 978-0984408436
Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches

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