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INFRINGEMENT ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS Copyright Infringement: Cut, Pasted and Pirated.
 Charles Town, WV: Copyright infringement is the new blue-collar crime, and the Internet is the new frontier for posting, displaying, downloading and using things that belong to someone else. [ Read More ]
Intellectual property: "Reprinted by permission? Whose permission?"
 Boulder, CO: Intellectual property, especially copyright for writers, is seemingly a simple concept: when you create something, you own it. You decide what's done with it, and nobody else uses it without your permission. Only you can surrender your right to intellectual property. That's easily understood—or is it? [ Read More ]
Intellectual property: "If they just weren't so crooked, it would be all right."
 Rialto, CA: LeShawn Andrews grew up in the music business—and knows a lot about protecting intellectual property if you want to survive. Andrews (not his real name) has been in the music business for over 20 years as a singer and composer, following in the footsteps of his father, who belonged to one of the most successful R&B, funk, and soul groups of the 1970s and 1980s. [ Read More ]
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INFRINGEMENT IN THE NEWS
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JUL-25-08: Hasbro, the company that holds the North American rights to the popular board game Scrabble, has launched a lawsuit against Scrabulous, an online version of the game played on Facebook. [SC NOW: HASBRO SUES SCRABULOUS]
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JUL-21-08: Facebook has launched a lawsuit against StudiVZ claiming copyright infringement of its look. Facebook has also just relaunched a revamped user interface which will help differentiate it from its German competitor. [BETA NEWS: FACEBOOK COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT]
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JUL-18-08: A family is suing a photographer for $1.5 million alleging that the photographer used their images without their consent. [WEST VIRGINIA RECORD: COPYRIGHT]
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JUL-16-08: YouTube announced late Monday that it will disguise the identities of its users when it provides viewership records to Viacom, as it has been ordered to do in a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit. [MSNBC: COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT]
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JUL-03-08: On July 2, Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed a new law designed to protect consumers and bona fide businesses against counterfeiting and piracy in that state. Some of the most commonly counterfeited and pirated products include fake prescription drugs, defective medical devices, faulty electrical appliances, batteries, machine tools, pirated software and consumer products, such as apparel and personal hygiene products.
[FIN CHANNEL: COUNTERFEITING AND PIRACY]
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JUL-03-08: YouTube has been ordered by a federal judge in charge of the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit to disclose who watches which video clips and when. Full access to YouTube user logs was granted despite privacy concerns, after Viacom, who launched the suit, argued that they need the data to show whether or not their copyright material is being used more frequently than amateur video. [MSNBC: YOUTUBE COPYRIGHT]
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What is a Patent?
A patent is an official document issued ("granted") by the federal government to the recipient ("patentee"), granting "...the right to EXCLUDE others from making, using, or selling the invention throughout the United States." (35 U. S. C. 154) An intellectual property lawyer can help with these issues.
A patent has 3 basic parts:
- A grant
- A description ("specification") telling how to make the invention, and
- CLAIMS (defining, in words, what is protected).
A Patent Specification generally includes four main components:
- Background (describing the technical field of the invention and the problems that existed before the invention,
- Drawings (usually required) showing the invention; and
- Detailed Description(enables readers to make and use invention and shows best mode known to inventor at time of filing - i.e. satisfies statutory duties under 35 U.S.C.112)
- Claims, which define, in words, the limits of coverage claimed by the inventor.
What is a Patent?
Other Features of Patents
How to evaluate an Invention
What a Patent is NOT
What is Patentable?
When may One apply for a Patent?
How to Obtain a Patent:
STEP 1: Prepare a Disclosure of the Invention
STEP 2. Conduct a Patentability Search
STEP 3: Draft and File the Patent Application
STEP 4: Prosecution of the Patent Application
STEP 5: Pre-Grant Publication of the Patent Application
STEP 6: Issuance of the Patent
Exploitation of Patents
Enforcement of Patents
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Infringement
Patents deal with inventions.
Trademarks and service marks deal with "marks" used in "trade", that is brand names.
Copyrights deal with works of art. Intellectual property, especially copyright for writers, is seemingly a simple concept: when you create something, you own it.
Copyrights, like trademarks, arise automatically.
Patents, however, must be applied for.
An intellectual property lawyer can help with all of these things.
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Posted on Mar-1-04
Updated on Jul-26-08
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