The Basics
Potpourri
Disclosures
Patently Absurd
Trademark or Trade Secret
100
Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets
What are forms of IP?
100
Over thirty years experience in the IP field
What is our IP Team? (Linda and Danny)
100
File patent application before engaging with customer or supplier
What is best practice to avoid improper disclosure?
100
Right to exclude others from making, using, and selling the invention
What is a patent?
100
Symbol, word, logo, or combination that identifies and distinguishes goods/services from the marketplace
What is a trademark?
200
Search conducted after submitting JIRA ticket or when the business is interested in exploring new development.
What is a Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) search?
200
Database used to track differentiators, development meetings, patents, and FTOs
What is JIRA?
200
Barred from filing international, starts one yer clock in United States, and informs third party about development
What are consequences of improper disclosure?
200
Informal patent application, 'patent junior', that only has a brief description and lasts for one year.
What is a provisional patent application?
200
TM symbol
What is a pending trademark?
300
Unique or improvements in process, function, and technology that is different from our competitors or what we have done in the past
What are differentiators?
300
Single U.S. party that makes, uses, or sells every element of a patented invention within the U.S. without authorization.
What is patent infringement?
300
Legally binding contract that obligates you to keep confidential information secret
What is a NDA?
300
Defines scope of protection
What are claims?
300
Protects company's secret recipe such as Coke® formula
What is a trade secret?
400
This type of IP protects the expression of an idea in a fixed, tangible form, like a book, presentation, or soure code (software).
What is a copyright?
400
Meeting to discuss and score invention with IP review team and inventors
What is IPRT Meeting?
400
Internal document that details the invention or process, important dates, and pertinent contract information
What is an Invention Disclosure?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
Single foreign application that covers 157 countries
What is PCT application?
400
Using the mark followed by a noun and consistent, proper spelling. Not using the mark in possessive form or as plural.
What is how to use a trademark?