Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents

[Perty4]

i know its late, but im struggling on an essay and thoght id ask for help.
Anyone who could please assist me on some basic understandings/ differences between trademarks, patents and copyrights, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

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[Mooster7]

A patent gives you the right to an invention, formula etc.

Trademark gives you ownweship of - more or less - an image and brand name.

Copyright is straight forward. You own copy, written/spoken/musically expressed material.

Just as a simplistic example, let's use Coca Cola as a primary example, and my cold fusion experiments and anything else I can think of, as secondary examples:

PATENT The formula & ingredients for how 'Coke' make this acidic swill is a patent. Any machines and so forth that the Coca Cola company may invent to ease in the manufucture of their product they would also want to protect under a patent.

My cold fusion experiments (and eventual success) would also require a patent.

TRADEMARK The colors, and name of Coca Cola would fall under trademark, as well as the cursive type logo they use on the cans, bottles, hats, t-shirts etc. They don't own 'red and white' but they own the logo even if it's done up in purple and pink.

The tired rock band 'Kiss' has trademarked their face make-up. Kiss music, on the other hand, is copyrighted.

When my cold fusion project comes to fruition, I will call it 'Mooster-Juice.' I will design the logo using Germanic 'dark-writing' and also use a stylistic image of my goofy, drunken, smiley face making a 'Peace' sign with my fingers [see Bigfooty photo page]. All of that would require a trademark protection.

Copyright would protect Coke under any advertisement campaign they launch. For years, Coke used 'It's the real thing.' Obviously, anyone can say It's the real thing , but copyright laws prevent any other advertising endeavor from saying "It's the real thing." Novels, magazine and newspaper articles and ideas also fall under copyright laws.

Mooster's cold fusion will use the expression, "Energy From My Balls." As far as I know, that hasn't been yet used by any utility company, so I'm good.

It's all very simple, but if you still have any questions, it's highly likely you will be sued soon for violation of one of the three above.

Peace,

 

[kristin5]

I'm a Trade Mark Attorney, working for a Patent Attorney firm. You're welcome to PM me with specific questions.