Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Famous Brands, Hdmi, Open-Source Software
Document Summary
He wrote a software program that downloaded these documents and posted them to a website. Though he combined it in an innovative way, he didn"t invent it (and the people who invented the programs in the first place got nothing). Intellectual property law does not protect ideas: it protects the expression and application of those ideas, steve jobs said that no apple device would ever run it. Property is a relationship between people: we are trying to describe our rights and obligations in terms of things (that are ownership intangible). Trademarks: trademarks include words, logos, or symbols that distinguish goods or services, it differentiates one thing from another, trademarks fall under federal law, if you have a trademark in canada, you don"t have one in the united. States: eg. there are no burger kings in australia because the trademark for. Burger king was taken (in australia they are called hungry jack"s: trademarks may be registered or unregistered.
