Patents Questions and Answers
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Are unregistered marks protected under federal law? Please share some specific benefits of registration.
Unregistered 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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Would it be copyright infringement to copy pages from a text book?
The 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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What are patents and copyrights?
Patents 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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Describe the possible effects upon our society if there were no laws granting copyrights or patent protections.
Patents 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...
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A company just designed a new belt buckle that has a patentable buckling mechanism and an original and distinct...
For 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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An early patent case involved the invention of a machine that automatically added salt tablets to cans of vegetables...
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...