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PatentsUnregistered trademarks are protected by common law regulations in the United States. This means that, whether they are registered or not, they will be protected by the federal Lanham Act, 15...
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PatentsAn early patent case involved the invention of a machine that automatically added salt tablets to...The scenario that you are describing here is the basis of the Supreme Court case Morton Salt Co. v. G.S. Suppiger Co. which was decided in 1942. In that case, the Suppiger company had a patent on...
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PatentsFor any kind of tangible object that has been designed and created with the intention of being sold exclusively by the creators, the first step is to apply for the following two types of patterns:...
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PatentsPatents and copyrights are exclusive rights to certain ideas, inventions, or works that are granted by the government to the people who developed those types of intellectual property. In a sense,...
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PatentsThe Fair Use clause of copyright law is specified in sections 107-118 of (title 17, US Code), which define the limitations of the rights of the copyright owner to allow others to copy original...
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PatentsPatents and copyrights are so critical to a capitalist system that protections for them are specifically enshrined in the Constitution. While there are those who would argue that copyrights and...