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Intellectual Property
Patents, copyrights, trademarks and related interests are known as
intellectual property (IP). It has not been long since patents
especially were regarded in U.S. courts, and the Supreme Court in
particular, as tools of monopolists, and their owners often fared
poorly. However, people here and abroad have come increasingly to view
privately funded innovation as critical to national economic well-being
and to agree that such innovation cannot occur unless companies that
succeed in the marketplace can recoup their research, development and
marketing costs. That is a major function of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, and
particularly since the 1980s, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY has been seen as
playing a key global role in developing technologies for the next
century.
Intellectual property attorneys are also known as entertainments
attorneys, patent attorneys and trademark lawyers. Intellectual
property lawyers also have specialty areas such as internet,
entertainment laws of transaction and technological information.
The term intellectual property covers a broad range of interests.
Patents, trademarks, designs of an industrial nature, fine art works,
entertainment such as plays, fictioinal writing and other written
works, film and images created for the internet are all intellectual
property. The limits or categorization of such intellectual properties
can be accuraely addressed by an intellectual property attorney so that
the proper representaion can be given and so a copyright can be
assigned.
A patent infringement lawyer litigates on behalf of the creator of a
particular product for the unlicensed use of thatproduct or its parts.
Copyright attorneys protect the sole rights of creations of originality
such as any artistic creation, musical compositions including lyrics,
software programs, and performances that involve choreography.
Coprrights are valid the entire life of the creator and for 50 years
after he or she dies.
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