Thursday, December 13, 2012

IP: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright & Trade Secrets

“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” -- G. K. Chesterton (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

IP – Intellectual Property – comes in several flavors, as indicated in the title of the following articles.  Both are worth reading if you are new to the topic of IP protection.

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An Introduction to Patents, Brands, Trade Secrets Trademarks, and Intellectual Property Rights Issues
William A. Knudson
The Strategic Marketing Institute Working Paper
August 2006
Free Full Text Source: http://productcenter.msu.edu/uploads/files/ippaper%202.pdf
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Colorado SBDC Network TRADEMARKS, COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS
Trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and patents are all ways to protect your work. This chapter will help you determine which type of registration you need and where it can be registered.
Free Full Text Source: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobheadername1=Content-Disposition&blobheadername2=MDT-Type&blobheadervalue1=inline%3B+filename%3D1%2F63%2F72-73_SBA_2008_Trademarks.pdf&blobheadervalue2=abinary%3B+charset%3DUTF-8&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1224913300972&ssbinary=true
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A related concept concerns contractual rights: licensing the right to use someone else’s intellectual property

For example, this article written about LC-Fining and LC-MAX provides examples of several IP rights.

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Hydrocarbon Engineering, June 2012,
Clean, green, hydrocracking machine
Dan Torchia, Arun Arora, and Luyen Vo
Chevron Lummus Global
Free Full Text Source: http://www.howebaker.com/images/uploads/technical_articles/clean-green-hydrocracking.pdf
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The article itself is protected by copyright.  Interestingly, the copyright owner may be the magazine in which the article is published, rather than either the authors or the Chevron corporation
LC-Fining and LC-MAX are Chevron trademarks
The processes represented by the LC-Fining and LC-MAX trademarks are protected by one or more patents owned by Chevron
Chevron licenses the use of the processes to qualified licensees


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