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San Francisco intellectual property law covers ideas, inventions, literary creations, unique names, business models, industrial processes, computer program code, and more.
San Francisco intellectual property attorneys and law firms primarily concern themselves with three particular areas of the law: Copyright, Trademark and Patent. San Francisco intellectual property law also deals with publicity rights, misappropriation, and unfair competition.
The following are explanations of select subjects included in San Francisco 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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