LOS ANGELES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW OVERVIEW
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Los Angeles intellectual property law covers ideas,
inventions, literary creations, unique names, business
models, industrial processes, computer program code,
and more.
Los Angeles intellectual property attorneys and law firms primarily
concern themselves with three particular areas of
the law: Copyright, Trademark and Patent. Los Angeles
intellectual property law also deals with publicity
rights, misappropriation, and unfair competition.
The following are explanations of select subjects
included in Los Angeles intellectual property law:
Copyright
Law
(Covered in intellectual property law)
A copyright gives exclusive rights to an author or
creator of a literary or artistic property to print,
copy, sell, license, distribute, transform to another
medium, translate, record or perform or otherwise
use and to give it to another by will. As soon as
a work is created and is in a tangible form (such
as writing or taping) the work automatically has federal
copyright protection. On any distributed and/or published
work a notice should be affixed stating the word copyright,
or with the name of the creator and the date of copyright
(which is the year of first publication).
Copyrights cover the following: literary, musical
and dramatic works, periodicals, maps, works of art
(including models), art reproductions, sculptural
works, technical drawings, photographs, prints (including
labels), movies and other audiovisual works, computer
programs, compilations of works and derivative works,
and architectural drawings.
Patent Law
(Covered in intellectual property law)
Patents grant an inventor the right to exclude others
from producing or using the inventor's discovery or
invention for a limited period of time. A patent is
an exclusive right to the benefits of an invention
or improvement granted by the U.S. Patent Office,
for a specific period of time, on the basis that it
is novel (not previously known or described in a publication),
"non-obvious" (a form which anyone in the
field of expertise could identify), and useful. There
are three types of patents: a) "utility patent"
which includes a process, a machine (mechanism with
moving parts), manufactured products, and compounds
or mixtures (such as chemical formulas); b) "design
patent" which is a new, original and ornamental
design for a manufactured article; and c) "plant
patent" which is a new variety of a cultivated
asexually reproduced plant.
Unfair Competition
(Covered in intellectual property law)
This involves wrongful and/or fraudulent business
methods to gain an unfair advantage over competitors;
for example: untrue or misleading advertising, misleading
customers by imitative trademark, name or package,
or falsely disparaging another's product.
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