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Ip Basics: Avoiding Patent, Trademark And Copyright Problems, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Ip Basics: Avoiding Patent, Trademark And Copyright Problems, Thomas G. Field Jr.
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Patents, copyrights and trademarks, as well as trade secrets and related rights, can be used to exclude free riders. These rights are collectively called "intellectual property" or IP.
Ip Basics: Copyright In Written Work, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Ip Basics: Copyright In Written Work, Thomas G. Field Jr.
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Written primarily for free-lance writers, this discussion addresses ownership and duration of copyrights, deposit and registration, notice, and remedies that are closely tied to prompt registration. It also discusses licensing and other matters of interest, as well as the need for counsel.
Ip Basics: Trademarks And Business Goodwill, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Ip Basics: Trademarks And Business Goodwill, Thomas G. Field Jr.
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This is information all business owners need if they wish to preserve their hard-won goodwill. It discusses, for example, the important differences between strong and weak marks for products and services, the value of state and federal registrations and the importance of searches (to avoid wasting money).
Ip Basics: Copyright For Digital Authors, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Ip Basics: Copyright For Digital Authors, Thomas G. Field Jr.
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Written for computer artists and programmers, this paper addresses the basics, as well as the registration of multiple works, difference between works that are and are not prepared "for hire," and other matters of interest to entrepreneurs as well as to free-lance programmers and artists.
Brief Survey Of And Proposal For Better Reconciliation Of The Options In Patent, Trademark, Copyright And Related Law, Thomas G. Field Jr
Brief Survey Of And Proposal For Better Reconciliation Of The Options In Patent, Trademark, Copyright And Related Law, Thomas G. Field Jr
Law Faculty Scholarship
Taking up trademarks, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets (in that order), [this article] will attempt to summarize briefly the ways in which such rights arise, are perfected, and are enforced. It will also discuss a hypothetical in which all of these options will be discussed in a comparative way. Finally, it will suggest that basic improvements in the area could be realized by dispensing with the often confusing and arbitrary subject matter distinctions which characterize the various subparts of the present intellectual property system.
Intellectual And Industrial Property In A Nutshell, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Intellectual And Industrial Property In A Nutshell, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Law Faculty Scholarship
First, intellectual and industrial property is property--extremely valuable property at that. However, this is not a subject that gets more than passing attention in many curricula, and none in most. Consequently, few lawyers, aside from the specialists, know much about it. Moreover, unlike most areas of legal specialization, such as tax, labor, and anti-trust law, the basic principles of which are known to most general practitioners, if a generalist knows anything about literary or industrial property, it is apt to be wrong. Furthermore, because clients tend to approach generalists first, substantial and incurable injury may result from a generalist's mistaken …