3/11 Quiz Flashcards
intellectual property
patents copyrights trademarks and trade secrets. federal and state law protect intellectual porperty right from misappropriation and infringement
economic espionage act
a federal statue that makes it a crime for any person to convery a trade secret for his or her own or anothers benefit, knowing or intending to cause injury to the owners of the trade secret
ex: foreign govt
patent
allows you and only you to make and sell product for x amount of years
what makes something patenable?
- machine
- processes
- composition of matter
- improvements to exisiting machines, processes, or composition of matter
- designs for an article manufacture
- asexually reproduced plants
- living material invented by a person (cloan)
required for obtaining patent
- novel
- useful
- non obvious
patent validity
20 years from the date the application was filed
first to invent rule
whoever invented 1st, not filed gets rights
one year “on sale” doctrine
a doctrine that says a patent may not be granted in the invention was used by the public for more than 1 year
provisional application
havent filed but you have 3 months to file patent
design patent
14 years
copyright
tangible writing
copyright revision act
- establishes the requirements for obtaing a copyright
2. protects copyrighted work from infringement
Sony Bono copyright term extension act
shorter 95 years from 1st publication or 120 year of creation
fair use doctrine
- quotations in scholarly review
- use in parody or satire
- brief quptation in a journal or article
- reprodution to illustrate lesson
- incendental reproduction
- reproduction in court
DMCA
cant access copyrighted things that have passwords through means of hacking
