Copyrighting Ideas and Facts

Copyright law protects the tangible expression of ideas and facts, not the ideas and facts themselves. Copyright protects only fixed,

Trademark Priority

In the United States, subject to one exception, trademark rights arise from use in commerce, regardless of whether or not

Design Patents: Protecting Your Product’s Unique Appearance Design patents are a crucial form of intellectual property protection for inventors and

In order to encourage the advancement of science and technology, the federal government gives an incentive to inventors to disclose

According to the Copyright Act, the authors of a joint work jointly own the copyright in the work they create.

Trade dress is governed by the same set of laws that protect unregistered trademarks. While traditional trademark law protects words

Trademark rights are gained by actual use of a mark rather than by registration. Generally, the first party who uses

One of the trickiest aspects of patent applications, particularly in the international context, is establishing the priority of patent rights.

For many years, there was only one type of patent application. The patent application required a specification or detailed description

A copyright holder has the exclusive rights to reproduce, display, transmit, perform, and modify a work as well as the