Ideas: Are They Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, or Engineering Innovations?
There are significant differences in how you must consider new ideas and set forth to manage these innovations in a safe and proper manner.
This section explores the differences of idea formulation as it relates to copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and engineering innovations. These are forms of intellectual property, and each is managed in different ways.
Copyrights
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published ...
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