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THE SIMPLE FACTSTM...Intellectual property refers to the property rights conferred to individuals when they invent something new( patent), create a new brand for something (a trademark), or create an original work of authorship or art…(a copyright).
Copyright
A Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly.
The copyright protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the writing. For example, a description of a machine could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying the description; it would not prevent others from writing a description of their own or from making and using the machine. Copyrights are registered by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.
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Domain Names
A domain name is a unique alphabetical addresses that can be found on the internet or worldwide web. For example, www.goochlawfirm.com is our unique I.P. address. Domain names allow Internet users to more easily find and communicate with web sites and any other IP-based communications services.
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet.
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Patents
In general, a patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office for a term of 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees.
A U.S. patent grants the patent owner “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention.
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Trademarks
A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product.
Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office.
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The Gooch Law Firm is ready to assist you in filing a new trademark application (new application and prosecution) or enforcing (licensing or litigation) your intellectual property (copyright/domain name/patent/trademark) rights against an individual or company that is using them without your permission.
We are here to help you secure and protect your intellectual property rights.
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