LAW-2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Trademark Infringement, Trademark Dilution, Patent Infringement
Document Summary
A property resulting from intellectual, creative processes- the product of someone"s mind. Laws protecting patents, trademarks, service marks, and copyrights are explicitly designed to protect, nurture, and reward inventive and artistic creativity. Licensing is when the owner of intellectual property allows another party to use the owner"s trademark, copyright, patent, for certain purposes. Distinctive mark, motto, device, or emblem than a manufacturer prints to goods it makes to be identifiable on the market. Registering the mark with one or more states with the us patent and. Prior use sufficient to warrant common law protection. Once a trademark is established, its owner is entitled to exclusive use of the trademark. Trademark dilution is when a mark sufficiently similar to a protected one is used and reduces the value of the protected trademark or lessens the protected trademark"s capacity to identify the protected trademark holder"s goods or services.
