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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WORKSHOP Conference on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks -Creative act of the mind Copyrights: www.copyright.gov -Literary, musical, and artistic works -Physical, it has a life span, only covers the expression of the idea – not the idea Trade Secrets: -Formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patters, or compilations of information – Have to have controls in place to keep it a secret Trade Dress: -Visual appearance of a product, its packaging, retail environment -Aesthetics - Look and feel Patents: www.uspto.gov -The concept, inventions, designs, plant, functional -Termed or time based – 20 years from date of filing -Utility and design – utility means useful -”Fair use” doctrine – make sure and site your sources. Trademarks & Service Marks: -Symbols, words, phrases -Be careful – if it becomes a generic term it could be over -Make sure and search first -Cost benefits and cost of protecting your intellectual property -Be proactive and do training on intellectual property -Patents – use a professional to help you -Patents – usually take between 3-5 years to be fully done Patents & rejected patents: -Prior art -Already printed publication -In public use -On sale or for sale -Or otherwise available to the public -Obvious or too general -These are things that we could do to protect future patents on stuff we are doing Trademarks: -Possible problems with consumer confusion – too close to another existing trademark -Instead of trying to help everyone... We need to focus in on our customers that are using our system. Keep them good and happy. Other customers will come. Focus on what we've got! -If you want to get something fixed... Have the person who built it use it for awhile. It will most likely get fixed pretty quickly. Kind of funny! Nobody likes to use something that is broken or hard. If the builder can see those issues, they will most likely fix it! |