BSLW1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Patentable Subject Matter, Espionage Act Of 1917, Patent Infringement
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Chapter 10: intellectual property rights and the internet. Federal law provides rights to owners of these works, products, company names, secret formulas that are called copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets: trademarks and service marks. The lanham act grants a producer the exclusive right to register a trademark and prevent competitors from using the mark. 1: a mark is any word, name, symbol, device, or combination of these used to identify a product or service a. i. mark identifies a product, trademark a. ii. mark identifies a service, service mark b. Commercial use of another"s famous mark or trade name when it results in a dilution of the distinctive quality of the mark: applies in the absence of competition and the likelihood of confusion. 9: a unique address by which an internet resource can be identified and found by a web. They hope to sell or ransom the name to the trademark owner or famous individual.
