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Glossary Terms Related To Reproduction & Copyright Topics

Design Patent

Definition:
A government grant of exclusive rights in a novel, nonobvious, and ornamental industrial design. A design patent confers the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling designs that closely resemble the patented design.

Cybersquatting

Definition:
The practice of registering a well-known domain name (e.g. mcdonalds.com) in hopes of either selling it at a big profit to the trademark owner, or to help sell one's own goods to people confused by the similarity between the cybersquatter's web address and the trademark company's name.

Multiple Dependent Claim

Definition:
A dependent claim which further limits and refers back in the alternative to more than one preceding independent or dependent claim.

Appellation Of Origin

Definition:
A term that refers to both a product's geographic origin and to its distinctive product characteristics caused by particular geographic conditions or methods of production.

Invention

Definition:
Any art or process (way of doing or making things), machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable under the patent laws of the United States.

Berne Convention

Definition:
The major multilateral copyright treaty, signed in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886. The Berne Convention, whose members form the Berne Union, is adhered to by nearly 150 nations, including the United States.

  

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Helpful Terms

Assignment

Definition:
A transfer of rights in intellectual property. An assignment of a patent, for example, is a transfer of sufficient rights so that the recipient has title to the patent.

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Copyrights FAQs

Question: What is required to have a song copyrighted?


Answer: "Two requirements must be met before a song can be protected by copyright: 1) the song must be original to the author and 2) the song must be fixed into a tangible medium of expression. (paper, tape, CD, etc.) However, a song title is not copyrightable."