While it is possible to come up with definitions that draw clear lines between the three major types of intellectual property protection (patent, copyright and trademark), there are complications ...

As James Madison stated in Federalist Paper No. 43, the usefulness of the Congresses power to award both patents and copyrights “will scarcely be questioned.” Madison, Debates in the Federal ...

Congress’s power to regulate trademarks is constitutionally grounded in the Commerce Clause. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is responsible for issuing and monitoring federally registered patents ...

For example, in Eldred, the Court upheld not only Congress’s extension of the duration of copyrights to almost five times what it was in the 1790 copyright act, it also ruled that the ...

The protection is more limited than patent and copyright protection: Trade secret law prevents only misappropriation, which means wrongful taking. Trade secret law could protect secrets in the ...

The patent reform bills are S. 23, 112th Congress, reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee without a written report and passed by the Senate on March 8, 2011, and H.R. 1249, 112th Congress ...

You can do many things with your copyright work including for example copy, change or sell it, share it online or rent it to someone as well as prevent other people from doing those things.