Chapter 8 Intellectual Property Rights Flashcards
Actual damages + profits of infringer
Copyright
1) injunction
2) actual damages plus profits of infringer
3) destruction of infringing articles
4) costs and attorney fees
Trademark (service mark, trade dress)
Registration with state/fed gives notice
Monatary damages for misappropriated
UTSA also permits pundit art damages if willful plus cost and attorney fees
Trade secret
First person to file gets protection
Patent
Must be novel, useful, and not obvious in light of current technology
Mark motto device, stamped printed affixed so origin may be known
Trade mark
Essentially a trade mark but used to identify a service rather than a good
Service Mark
Sugests quality, origin, mode of transportation, materials, characteristics
Cerification Mark
Image overall appearance ( subject to same prosecution as TM
Trade dress
All or part of a business name
May be protected as a trademark of it is the same as trademark
Trade name
To protect businesses from losing business to rival companies using confusingly similar TMs
Lanham act
Provides remedies for those who wish to enforce their claim in federal court.
Amended to protect from TM dilution
tDRA
Trademark dilution revision act
For plaintiff to state a claim under TDRA ( trademark dilution revision act)
4 things
&paintiff owns famous Mark (distinctive
& Deff. Has began using * Mark in commerce
& similarity gives rise to association
& association is likely to impair distinctiveness or harm rep. Of famous Mark
SCMGA
Stop counterfeiting in manufactured goods act
sCMGA stop counterfeiting in maid actuated goods act
Makes it a crime to
Traffic/ attempt to traffic counterfeit goods
Knowingly use counterfeit Mark in connections with goods + services
If U.S. citizen or citizen of another country publishes material in a member nation of —- every country that has signed must recognize authors copyright
Berne convention
Sets standards for INTERNATIONAL protection of intellectual property rights
Each member of WTO must provide its domestic laws w/ broad intellectual property rights
+effective remedies including civil and criminal ( forbids discrimination against foreign owners)
The TRIPS agreement