In Intellectual Property
What is Intellectual Property?
Just like there are laws to protect physical property such as the land your house/apartment/condo is on, there are also laws to protect intangible property such as written expressions, inventions, slogans, etc. This type of intangible property, known as intellectual property, falls into four general categories - for more information on these categories of Intellectual Property, please select a QuizLaw topic below.
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Patents
- What is a patent?
- What is a utility patent?
- What is a design patent?
- What is a plant patent?
- What is the public domain?
- How long does a patent last?
- How long does a utility patent last?
- How long does a design patent last?
- What happens when a patent expires?
- Who can get a patent?
- How can I get a patent?
- Where does a patent come from?
- What is a patent application?
- Can a patent application be filed online?
- What is a continuation application?
- What is a continuation-in-part application?
- What is a provisional patent application?
- What does patent pending mean?
- When do I have to file a patent application?
- What is the “first to invent” rule?
- What is patent priority?
- What happens if my patent application is granted?
- What happens if my patent application is rejected?
- Can I get a patent without a lawyer?
- Who can practice law before the PTO?
- What is a patent attorney?
- What is a patent agent?
- How do I do a patent search?
- Why should I do a patent search?
- What are the requirements for getting a patent?
- What can I patent?
- What is patentable subject matter?
- What is not patentable subject matter?
- What is the novelty requirement?
- What is prior art?
- What is the utility requirement?
- What is the nonobviousness requirement?
- What is the difference between the novelty requirement and the nonobviousness requirement?
- What is the enablement requirement?
- Can I patent a process?
- Can I patent a machine?
- Can I patent a living thing?
- Is the human genome patentable?
- Can I patent a business method?
- Does a business method have to relate to the technological arts?
- Can I patent computer software?
- How is a computer software patent different from a software copyright?
- Can I patent a law of nature?
- Can I patent a mathematical formula?
- Can I patent an idea?
- What is patent infringement?
- What types of legal disputes arise over patents?
- How is a patent infringed?
- How is patent infringement determined?
- What is the difference between contributory infringement and induced infringement?
- What happens if I infringe someone’s patent?
- What are the penalties for patent infringement?
- What can I do if someone is infringing my patent?
- How can I use something that is patented by someone else?
- What laws govern patents?
- How is a patent different from a copyright?
- How is a patent different from a trademark?
- How is a patent different from a trade secret?
- Patent Definitions
- What is anticipation?
- What is an article of manufacture?
- What is assignment?
- What is the best mode requirement?
- What is a business method?
- What is a continuation application?
- What is a continuation-in-part application?
- What is contributory infringement?
- What is a dependant claim?
- What is a design patent?
- What is direct infringement?
- What is the doctrine of equivalents?
- What is EFS?
- What is enablement?
- What is the “first to file” rule?
- What is the “first to invent” rule?
- What is an independent claim?
- What is induced infringement?
- What is inequitable conduct?
- What is infringement?
- What is an interference proceeding?
- What is an ITC action?
- What is an invention?
- What are joint inventors?
- What is a license?
- What is a machine?
- What is the nonobviousness requirement?
- What is the novelty requirement?
- What is an office action?
- What is ordinary skill in the art?
- What is a patent?
- What is a patent agent?
- What is a patent attorney?
- What is a patent claim?
- What is patent pending?
- What is patent prosecution?
- What is a patent specification?
- What is patentable subject matter?
- What is a plant patent?
- What is prior art?
- What is priority?
- What is a process?
- What is a process claim?
- What is a product claim?
- What is prosecution history estoppel?
- What is a provisional patent application?
- What is the PTO?
- What is the public domain?
- What is reduction to practice?
- What is reexamination?
- What is the research exemption?
- What is the USPTO registration exam?
- What is the utility requirement?
- What is a utility patent?
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Copyright
- What is a copyright?
- How long does a copyright last?
- How long does a copyright last for a work created after January 1, 1978?
- How long does a copyright last for a work created and published before January 1, 1978?
- How long does a copyright last for a work created before January 1, 1978 but published later?
- How long does a copyright last for a work created before January 1, 1978 but never published?
- How long does a copyright last for a work created before January 1, 1923?
- Who can get a copyright?
- What is an author?
- What is the difference between ownership of a copyright and ownership of an embodiment?
- What is a joint work?
- What is a work made for hire?
- What is a collective work?
- How can I get a copyright?
- What is the Copyright Office?
- Do I have to deposit a copy of my work?
- What is a federal copyright registration?
- What are the benefits of registering my copyright?
- How do I apply for a copyright registration?
- What is preregistration?
- How do I renew my copyright registration?
- What is copyright notice?
- Where should the copyright notice go?
- Do I have to use copyright notice?
- What happens if something is published without a copyright notice?
- What form must the copyright notice be?
- What happens if there is an error in the copyright notice?
- What does the (c) symbol mean?
- What can be protected by copyright?
- What is the difference between ideas and expressions?
- What is originality?
- What is fixation?
- What is a tangible medium?
- What works can be protected by copyright?
- What is a work of authorship?
- What qualifies as a literary work?
- What qualifies as a musical work?
- What qualifies as a dramatic work?
- What qualifies as a pantomime or choreographic work?
- What qualifies as a pictorial, graphic or sculptural work?
- What qualifies as a motion picture or audiovisual work?
- What qualifies as a sound recording?
- What is the difference between a musical work and a sound recording?
- What qualifies as an architectural work?
- What is a compilation?
- What is a derivative work?
- Can software be protected by copyright?
- Can immoral or obscene works be protected by copyright?
- What cannot be protected by copyright?
- What is “scenes a faire?”
- What is the merger doctrine?
- Can government works be protected by copyright?
- What is the public domain?
- What rights are protected by copyright?
- What is the right to reproduce?
- What are the exceptions to the right to reproduce?
- What is the right to prepare derivative works?
- What is the right to distribute?
- What are the exceptions to the right to distribute?
- What is the first sale doctrine?
- What is the right of public performance?
- What are the exceptions to the right of public performance?
- What are performing rights societies?
- What is the right of public display?
- What are the exceptions to the right of public display?
- What is the right of public performance of sound recordings?
- What is a compulsory license?
- What are moral rights?
- How do I enforce my copyright?
- What is copyright infringement?
- What is direct infringement?
- Does it matter if someone intended to infringe a copyright?
- What is unauthorized copying?
- What is indirect infringement?
- What is contributory infringement?
- What is vicarious infringement?
- What was the Grokster case about?
- What are the remedies for copyright infringement?
- What are statutory damages?
- Is independent creation a defense to copyright infringement?
- How can I use information that is copyrighted by someone else?
- What is the Creative Commons?
- What are the creative commons licenses?
- What is attribution?
- What is non-commercial?
- What is “no derivative works?”
- What is “share alike?”
- What is an attribution non-commercial no derivatives license?
- What is an attribution non-commercial share alike license?
- What is an attribution non-commercial license?
- What is an attribution no derivatives license?
- What is an attribution share alike license?
- What is an attribution license?
- What is the public domain dedication?
- What laws govern copyrights?
- What is the Copyright Act of 1976?
- What is section 101?
- What is section 102?
- What is section 103?
- What is section 106?
- What is the Sonny Bono Act?
- What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
- What is the Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act?
- What is the Berne Convention?
- How is a copyright different from a patent?
- How is a copyright different from a trademark?
- How is a copyright different from a trade secret?
- Copyright Definitions
- What is the adaptation right?
- What is an anonymous work?
- What is an architectural work?
- What is assignment?
- What is attribution?
- What is an attribution license?
- What is an attribution no derivatives license?
- What is an attribution non-commercial license?
- What is an attribution non-commercial no derivatives license?
- What is an attribution non-commercial share alike license?
- What is an attribution share alike license?
- What is an audiovisual work?
- What is an author?
- What is the Berne Convention?
- What is a blanket license?
- What is a collective work?
- What is common law copyright?
- What is a compilation?
- What is a compulsory license?
- What is contributory infringement?
- What is a copy?
- What is a copyright?
- What is copyright notice?
- What is the Creative Commons?
- What are the creative commons licenses?
- What is a deposit?
- What is a derivative work?
- What is the display right?
- What is the distribution right?
- What is the DMCA?
- What is fair use?
- What is the first sale doctrine?
- What is fixation?
- What is the idea-expression dichotomy?
- What is infringement?
- What is innocent infringement?
- What is an instructional text?
- What are joint authors?
- What is a joint work?
- What is a license?
- What is a literary work?
- What is the merger doctrine?
- What are moral rights?
- What is a motion picture?
- What is a musical work?
- What is “no derivative works?”
- What is non-commercial?
- What is an omission of notice?
- What is originality?
- What is a performance?
- What is the performance right?
- What is a phonorecord?
- What is a pictorial, graphic or sculptural work?
- What is a pseudonymous work?
- What is publication?
- What is the reproduction right?
- What is the right of attribution?
- What is the right of integrity?
- What is sampling?
- What is “share alike?”
- What is a sound recording?
- What is a supplementary work?
- What is a tangible medium?
- What is a work of authorship?
- What is a work of visual art?
- What is a work made for hire?
- What is droit morale?
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Trademarks
- What is a trademark?
- What does a trademark protect?
- What rights does having a trademark give me?
- What types of marks are there?
- What is a service mark?
- What is a collective mark?
- What is a certification mark?
- What is trade dress?
- What are goods and services?
- How long does a trademark last?
- How long does a federal trademark registration last?
- How long does a state trademark registration last?
- How long does a common law trademark last?
- Who can get a trademark?
- How can I get a trademark?
- Can I get a trademark without a lawyer?
- Should I do a trademark search?
- How do I do a trademark search?
- What is the difference between TESS and TARR?
- Do I have to register my trademark?
- What is the Principal Register?
- What is the Supplemental Register?
- What are the benefits of registering my trademark?
- How can I get a federal trademark registration?
- What is intent to use?
- How can I get a state trademark registration?
- How can I get state common law protection for my trademark?
- How long does it take to get a trademark?
- How do I apply for a federal trademark registration?
- What is the Patent and Trademark Office?
- What are the parts of a trademark application?
- How do I identify the goods and services in a trademark application?
- How do I depict my mark in a trademark application?
- How do I file a trademark application?
- How long does it take for my trademark application to be processed?
- How can I check the status of my trademark application?
- What happens after I file my trademark application?
- How is my trademark application reviewed?
- Why might my trademark application be rejected?
- What happens if my trademark application is rejected?
- What happens if I do not respond to an office action?
- What happens if my trademark application is granted?
- What is a statement of use?
- What happens if I do not file a statement of use?
- What things can I trademark?
- What does it mean for a trademark to be distinctive?
- What is secondary meaning?
- What is an arbitrary or fanciful mark?
- What is a suggestive mark?
- What is a descriptive mark?
- How can I tell if a mark is descriptive?
- What is an example of a descriptive mark?
- What is a generic mark?
- How do I prove that my mark has secondary meaning?
- What is a word mark?
- Can I protect trade dress?
- Can I protect sound as a trademark?
- Can I protect a scent or fragrance as a trademark?
- Can I protect a color as a trademark?
- What is a composite mark?
- Can I use my domain name as a trademark?
- What things can't I trademark?
- What can’t I register as a trademark?
- What is a generic mark?
- What is genericide?
- How can I avoid genericide of my trademark?
- What is an immoral or scandalous mark?
- What is deceptive or deceptively misdescriptive?
- Can a geographic term be protected as a trademark?
- Can a surname be protected as a trademark?
- How do I enforce my trademark rights?
- How do I police my trademark?
- What is an opposition proceeding?
- What is trademark notice?
- Do I have to include a notice with my trademark?
- What does the TM symbol mean?
- What does the SM symbol mean?
- What does the (R) symbol mean?
- What is trademark infringement?
- What is the test for trademark infringement?
- What is likelihood of confusion?
- How is likelihood of confusion determined?
- What is an incontestable trademark?
- What are the remedies for trademark infringement?
- What is dilution?
- What is a famous trademark?
- How can I use someone else's trademark?
- How can I buy someone’s trademark?
- How can I license someone’s trademark?
- What is a consent to use agreement?
- Can a trademark be canceled?
- What is a cancellation proceeding?
- What is the basis for a trademark being canceled?
- What laws govern trademarks?
- How is a trademark different from a copyright?
- How is a trademark different from a patent?
- How is a trademark different from a trade secret?
- Trademark Definitions
- What is abandonment?
- What is an affidavit of use?
- What is an Application for Renewal?
- What is an arbitrary mark?
- What is an assignment?
- What is an assignment in gross?
- What is blurring?
- What is cancellation?
- What is a cancellation proceeding?
- What is a cease and desist letter?
- What is a Certificate of Registration?
- What is a certification mark?
- What is a collective mark?
- What is commerce?
- What is a common law trademark?
- What is a composite mark?
- What is confusion?
- What is a consent to use agreement?
- What is a counterfeit mark?
- What is a deceptive mark?
- What is a deceptively misdescriptive mark?
- What is a descriptive mark?
- What is dilution?
- What is a distinctive mark?
- What is a famous trademark?
- What is a fanciful mark?
- What is the Federal Trademark Dilution Act?
- What is functionality?
- What is a generic mark?
- What is genericide?
- What is a geographically descriptive mark?
- What is a geographically deceptively misdescriptive mark?
- What are goods and services?
- What is an incontestability affidavit?
- What is an incontestable trademark?
- What is infringement?
- What is inherently distinctive?
- What is intent to use?
- What is interstate commerce?
- What is a junior user?
- What is the Lanham Act?
- What is likelihood of confusion?
- What is a license?
- What is a mark?
- What is the Official Gazette?
- What is opposition?
- What is an opposition proceeding?
- What is the Principal Register?
- What is the PTO?
- What is secondary meaning?
- What is a Section 8 affidavit?
- What is a Section 9 renewal application?
- What is a Section 15 affidavit?
- What is a senior user?
- What is a serial number?
- What is a service mark?
- What is a specimen?
- What is a statement of use?
- What is a suggestive mark?
- What is the Supplemental Register?
- What is tarnishment?
- What is TARR?
- What is the TTAB?
- What is TEAS?
- What is TESS?
- What is the TMEP?
- What is trade dress?
- What is a trade name?
- What is a trademark?
- What is the Trademark Applications and Registration Retrieval database?
- What is the Trademark Electronic Search System?
- What is trademark infringement?
- What is the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedures?
- What is a trademark notice?
- What is the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board?
- What is a watch report?
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Trade Secrets
- What is a trade secret?
- How long does a trade secret last?
- Who can get a trade secret?
- How can I get a trade secret?
- What kind of value does a trade secret need to have?
- How secret do I have to keep my trade secret?
- Should I patent something or keep it a trade secret?
- What kind of things can I protect as a trade secret?
- Does a trade secret need to be novel?
- Does a trade secret need to have utility?
- What is a formula?
- What is a pattern?
- What is a compilation?
- What is a program?
- What is a device?
- What is a method, technique or process?
- What kind of things can't I protect as a trade secret?
- How can I protect my trade secret?
- How do I enforce my trade secret rights?
- What is trade secret misappropriation?
- What happens when someone with access to my trade secret steals it?
- What happens when a stranger steals my trade secret?
- What are improper means for learning of a trade secret?
- What is improper acquisition?
- What is improper disclosure?
- What is improper use?
- What is reverse engineering?
- What if I did not improperly take the trade secret?
- What are the remedies for trade secret misappropriation?
- How can I use someone else's trade secret?
- What laws govern trade secrets?
- How is a trade secret different from a patent?
- How is a trade secret different from a copyright?
- How is a trade secret different from a trademark?
- Trade Secret Definitions
- What is a compilation?
- What is a confidentiality agreement?
- What is a covenant not to compete?
- What is a device?
- What is a formula?
- What is improper acquisition?
- What is improper disclosure?
- What is improper use?
- What is independent creation?
- What is a method, technique or process?
- What is misappropriation?
- What is an NDA?
- What is a noncompetition agreement?
- What is a nondisclosure agreement?
- What is a pattern?
- What is a program?
- What is public disclosure?
- What is reverse engineering?
- What is a trade secret?
- What is trade secret misappropriation?
- What is the Uniform Trade Secrets Act?
- What is the UTSA?