Safeguarding Intangible Assets

Acknowledgments

I wish to dedicate this book to Deb, who has consistently been an unwavering source of encouragement and support allowing me to pursue this and other aspirations. Deb is also the epitome of a blind date that took place 42 years ago that culminated in my good fortune of finding a spouse well above my station.

I also would like to thank Pop, who always believed in me and my work and tried his best to familiarize his coffee-drinking and mall-walking friends with intangible assets and intellectual property. And, equally important to Faye, my mother, who would have merely said, ‘I always knew you would get it done eventually, I had faith’!

Also, I extend my genuine appreciation to Laurie Washington and Allison Krepel who I could ...