BU451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Making Money, Association To Advance Collegiate Schools Of Business, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
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Object during application (current patent holders get notice) Hindering trade or industry failing to licence or unreasonable conditions. First to file priority not followed in the u. s. Apply within canada via our patent office under the patent cooperation treaty (pct) through standardized process (115 countries) Convention priority-filing date protected if apply within the year. Copyright it is (cid:449)hat it is, do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)are ho(cid:449) hard it (cid:449)as to (cid:272)reate. Patent how you got there, the process you did to get there. All trademarks get common law and statutory protection. (cid:862)disti(cid:374)(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:373)ark(cid:863) used to distinguish product or service- branding. Trademark act (federal) legislation to allow for the registration of a trademark-no need for notice . Common law recognizes the existence of trademarks through the tort of passing off. With copyright, it is art and creative. When you lose your distinctiveness, it becomes generic. Create a whole genre with the name. Visual characteristic, shape, packaging: not about sound or touch, all visualization.
