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If your design is a sketch or artwork, then copyright is the appropriate choice. If your design will be used as a logo for marketing, then trademark protection is your best option.
Which is the more appropriate legislation for designers to protect their collections?
More specifically, this decision has impacted copyright protection for design features incorporated into useful products. Design features can be protected by design patent too, according to Berman ...
As part of Mintz Levin’s continuing Intellectual Property series on the practical applications of copyright, trademark, and patent law, this article ...
It’s the kind of case my colleagues who teach copyright law might spend an entire class session analyzing, pondering the pros and cons of copyright protection for industrial designs. In a rare moment ...
Therefore, the viability of plaintiff’s copyright claim hinged on whether its color and design elements were “conceptually separate” from the cheerleading uniform.
“The Report concludes that AI can improve efficiency in detecting and enforcing copyright and design infringements, but that use of AI technologies for criminal purposes (including copyright and ...
The copyright term for patents on new inventions in the UK and the US is just 20 years, a policy that encourages rapid innovation as firms compete to produce the best product or iteration of an idea.
In-house counsel are clearer on getting copyright protection for designs but are worried by inconsistencies in the law and a perception that copyright is a “weaker” IP right ...
Ruling in favour of Anant Oil Industries, the Board ordered expungement of the relevant copyright entries from the Register and stated that as the artistic work in question is a design capable of ...