ADMS 4245 Lecture Notes - Design Patent, Trade Secret
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You can register a copyright but it is not necessary. A design patent can be thought of as a copyright for the ornamental design of a product. Useful: useful to someone in some context. Novel: are those that are not known publicly and therefore are not evident in existing products, publications, or prior patents. In the us, an invention to be patented must not have been revealed to the public more than a year before the patent is filed. Nonobvious: patent law defines obvious inventios as those that would be clearly evident to those with. Ordinary skill in the art who faced the same problem as the inventor: barriers to obtaining a patent. 1. the requirements that a product be useful is easily met: the requirements than an invention be novel and nonobvious are the most common barriers, about two-thirds of applications filed for patents result in issued patents.