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have experience and expertise in dealing with all sort of
intellectual property issues and are committed to providing the highest
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Orange County intellectual property attorneys and law firms habdle all
ideas, inventions, literary creations, unique names, business
models, industrial processes, computer program code, and more.
Intellectual property law is primarily concerned with three
particular areas of the law: Copyrights,
Trademarks and Patents. Intellectual property
law also deals with publicity rights, misappropriation, and unfair competition.
The following are explanations of select subjects included
in Orange County 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.
All of our Orange County intellectual property
lawyers and law firms are members in good standing of the
California Bar Association and have been subject to our pre-screening
process so that we may provide you with the best help possible.
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