Final Project: Rule of Law/ Quotes

Quotes:

1.)  “The creative Commons is a nonprofit enterprise that encourages copyright owners to share their works with the public in various innovative ways including dedications to the public domain or through a series of licenses.”pg 243 Copyright Law

2.)  “Framing occurs when one website displays a Web page of another company usually within a bordered area on its own site (similar to the “picture-in-picture” feature offered on some televisions.” Pg 274 Patent Copyright & Trademark.

3.)  “Photographic images are protectable under copyright law whether in print or digital format. The photographer is considered the author and original owner of copyright.” Pg 312 Patent Copyright & Trademark.

4.)  “A patent application must be filed in the name of the true inventor or inventors. If there is more than one inventor, each becomes an applicant for the patent, and each automatically owns equal shares of the invention and any resulting patents.” Pg 175 Patent Law Forms

5.)  “Many people use the term protections to refer to the benefits that go along with ownership of copyrights and other intellectual property such as Trade Secrets, Patents, and Trademarks.” Pg 211 Copyright Law Definitions.

6.)  “The phrase All Rights Reserved was required as a part of a copyright notice by the Buenos Aires Convention international treaty.” Pg 211 Copyright Law Definition.

7.)  “A lawsuit brought against someone who uses a copyrighted expression without permission is commonly known as an infringement action.” Pg 280 Patent, Copyright & Trademark.

8.)  “To obtain all the benefits of registration, a work must be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within certain time limits. Timely registration entitles a copyright owner to statutory damages and attorney fees in an infringement suit, which may make affordable a suit that is otherwise prohibitively expensive and risky.” Pg 334 Patent, Copyright & Trademark

9.)  “To qualify for registration and/or protection of a trademark under the Lanham Act, a mark must have first been used in commerce that Congress may regulate. The Lanham Act defines commerce as business or trade that the federal government, through the US Congress, is authorized by the US Constitution to control.” Pg 403 Trademark Law Definitions.

10.)  “If registering a mark in which color is claimed as a component, the applicant must submit the image of the mark in color, not black and white, as well as a separate statement describing where the color appears on the mark.” Pg 402 Patent, Copyright & Trademark.

11.)  “Trademark rights in each county depend solely on the Trademark laws of that country; there is not set of international laws. Mark owners must start a new to establish rights to a mark in every new country they enter for commercial purposes, a concept known as territoriality.” Pg 454 Patent Trademark & Copyright.

12.)  “Keywords are terms sold by search engines to advertisers.”Pg 455. Trademark & Copyright. 
13.) "Once a regular patent application has been filed, the full gamut of procedures that must be followed to actually obtain the patent is referred to as the prosecution of a patent application." Pg 147 Patent Law Definition.
14.) "A lawsuit brought against someone who uses a copyrighted expression without permission is commonly known as an infringement action." Pg 280 Patent, Copyright & Trademark.
15.) "According to the Copyrights Act, a transfer of copyright ownership is any grant of an exclusive right, or an assignment, mortgage, exclusive license, or any other conveyance of a copyright or of any of the exclusive rights constituting a copyright." Pg 334 Patent Copyright & Trademark.