Intellectual Property

The character of the Spider cannot be copyrighted. Only expressions of an idea are eligible for copyright protection, not the idea itself. It does appear that the character of the Spider, however, is registered as a trademark of the Argosy corporation.

As to the original stories, provided that all the necessary applications & extensions were filed no the first of the Spider pulps would not fall into the public domain until the year 2038 (presumedly the stories/artwork were done as "work-for-hire" & as such would have a copyright term of 95 years post-publication).

It depends on the patent. Depending on what product or item you have a patent for will determine what company you need to file the patent with. If you dont know the company's name then you can just look it up on the internet to find out.

I believe that would be a monumental mason's canning jar with white enameled metal screw on lid. Front : Mason's STAR Patent Nov. 30th 1858 Back : American Eagle holding arrows and olive branch, 7 stars Estimate price between $40.00 - $80.00 Circa 1975 Libbey Glass Co. For 1976 Bicentennial.

Patents can only be issued by a national government, not a state government to be binding in interntional law.

When does the patent expire for abilify

Better? It is certainly "different". Copyright lasts for a fixed period. Trademark lasts as long as the owner continues to use it. You can have trademark rights on things that cannot be protected by copyright and vice versa.

Typically there would be a written agreement between the artist and the entity to which they are surrendering their rights. See the article linked below for an example.

Abraham Lincoln is the only president to have been granted a patent. He received Patent 6469 in May of 1849 for a device to lift boats over shoals.

on page 77 of the 28th edition of "blue book of gun values is a beautiful picture of the model 1903 with serial # 79070 that was made circa 1907. you can view it online at their website store.bluebookinc.com , I have found values of 150.00 to 250.00

A patent is generally enforced by taking legal action to prevent others from making, using, selling or importing products that include the patented invention, or to extract monetary damages from those who have infringed the patent.

Anything that it includes.

If you conceive an invention that happens to be an improvement upon something already patented, you can certainly pursue your own patent on the improvement invention, assuming it is new and non-obvious in light of everything ever used in public or described in any publication in any language anywhere in the world at any time prior to your patent filing date.

A utility patent protects the way an invention works and how it is used. In order to be considered for a Utility Patent, the invention must, at the very least, be a machine, process, manufactured item, material composition - or an improvement on any of these.

Because there are no borders on the internet, everything has an international perspective. Copyright issues arise to some extent because of the differences in each country's laws, but more frequently because of the way those laws are and are not enforced.

Federally (USA): There is a filing fee for each class of goods and services to be registered for a given mark. Currently under $300. See uspto.gov for latest fees.

Also may be wise to pay a few hundred dollars for professional help with clearance and filing out the application and filing it with all the right parts and forms.

Hire an attorney and get it done right the first time, if the brand is at all valuable to you.

State registration: varies. Some are flat fee of $50, some are $50 per class.

European and individual countries: vary.

Madrid protocol: ask your attorney However, if the trademark is only going to be used within the state - it requires no registration. If you create a sign with your name or logo on it for your local store, it is protected under the Common Law.

Any number greater than one. "Plurality" means "two or more".

For example, a patent claim may include an element worded as, "a widget for nobulating, including a plurality of smurfs..." This means that a similarly nobulating widget with a single smurf would not literally infringe this element, but an example with two, three, or even six hundred smurfs could.

The context of the invention disclosure could also limit the actual number in a particular plurality.

Example: a statement that "each corner has one smurf" and another statement that "there can only be up to five corners." In this case, "plurality" effectively means 2, 3, 4, or 5 and the patentee would have a harder time proving literal infringement if another inventor comes up with a way to nobulate with six or more corners. This is because the disclosure has (perhaps inadvertently) "given away" the fact that this patent does not even envision having more than five corners (or smurfs), and you can't claim what you haven't yet invented.

A safer way to word it might have been, "a suitable embodiment of the invention has been found to function well with up to five corners, and one smurf per corner, although other functional combinations will also be apparent to those skilled in the art." Thus, the claimed "plurality" would have the broadest possible meaning, "two or more". A condition of suffering or disease--- APEX

Public domain books are not protected by copyright. The term of copyright may have expired, they may be works of the US Government and not protected, or the creator may donate them to the public domain.

Forever. You can't keep it registered unless you continue using it, and pay periodic fees (e.g., 6th year, then every 10 years) but as long as that brand is in use with the same goods or services, it's yours to keep, regardless of whether it's registered.

The copyright laws have changed a little with the times, in order to address advances in technology. The most notable recent update was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, by which the US came more in line with other UN nations in the World Intellectual Property Organization. More recently, the FAIR USE Act of 2007 sought to expand the rights of teachers in using materials protected by Digital Rights Management.

Links:

http://www.copyright.gov

http://www.wipo.int

Online images are subject to the same laws as images in other formats: they may only be used, copied, altered, distributed (uploaded), or displayed (posted) with permission of the copyright holder, which is most often the creator.

There are millions of photographs and other images that have been given a Creative Commons license by their creators, which allows many uses without getting further permission.

Don't know the value, but based on the serial #13549SA, it was produced in 1957. if looking for value ask: felix@bedians.com Value will depend on if your definintion of "excellent" coincides with the one used by seller/buyer/collectors and if the box and original papers are included. Value range from 500-1000 USD.

On AMA the patient and physician should be advised about the existence of computerized data both before and information is stored.

It's most likely that these promises were not kept if they weren't enforces, so they're worthless.

It allows anyone who publicly performs, copies or makes adaptations to be sued if they do not obtain a license.

There are actually two US c ompanies whose sole business is to track the use of protected material by unauthorized users and collect the royalties.