BU451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Patent Cooperation Treaty, Compulsory License, Patent 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. Convention priority-filing date protected if apply within the year. Copyright it is what it is, don"t care how hard it was to create. Patent how you got there, the process you did to get there. All trademarks get common law and statutory protection. Distinctive mark 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. Create a whole genre with the name. When you lose your distinctiveness, it becomes generic. Visual characteristic, shape, packaging: not about sound or touch, all visualization. Word; adjective- not a noun or a verb.
