Posts Tagged ‘intellectual property’
THE ANNALS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NUMBER 2
What is a Trade Secret? In our blog, “What is Intellectual Property?”, we identified several kinds of intellectual property, i.e., products created through one’s creativity and intellect, that others may not use without permission. One of those is trade secrets. The most famous example is the Coca-Cola formula, maintained as a trade secret since its […]
THE ANNALS OF COPYRIGHT NUMBER 3
What Is Copyright Infringement? Copyright infringement has two sides: a) protecting your own copyrighted material and b) avoiding violations of another’s copyrighted work. The U.S. Copyright Act, section 106, gives a copyright owner exclusive rights to the control of an original work, including reproducing it, publicly displaying it, publicly performing it, making derivative works, and […]
WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY?
Have you ever created anything? Invented something? Designed something? Created a logo or a name that identifies your products or services? Written a song? Painted a picture? Taken a photograph? Perhaps you are a sculptor or a songwriter or you write blogs or screenplays. If you’ve done any of these things, then you have owned […]