BUSI 3705U Study Guide - Final Guide: Non-Disclosure Agreement, Floppy Disk, Patent Attorney
Document Summary
Freelance cartoonist"s newly composed cartoon: rights that atach to intangibles. Characterisic that difereniates intellectual property ideniied conidenial business info from other forms of conidenial info : info of a commercial nature. Ability to exclude others from using technology arises from: patents. Primary purpose of copyright: provide a right of exploitaion of certain works. Areas of intellectual property are within the federal government"s legislaive jurisdicion: copyrights, trademarks, patents. Srtongly supports incurring the expense of having a patent agent search relevant literature for the purposes of establishing novelty: 90% of all patents are for improvements to exising patented invenions. Tradiional view of patent law with respect to muli-jurisdicional operaions: patent rights are territorial in nature. Do what it purports to do : need to establish uility for patentability. Disinguishes the evoluion in a paricular state of the art or knowledge from an invenive step with respect to a patent applicaion: obviousness.
