What do you think about the concept of Intellectual Property?
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I'm most familiar with trademarks so I can only speak from that point of view. I'll answer your questions point-by-point:\n\n1) Trademarks favor both the individual & society. It protects the trademark owner in that they are granted the exclusive rights to their name, logo, etc. within their industry. It benefits society in that having a trademark discourages others from infringing upon you. Brand recognition is not merely a great marketing advantage but it's also an indicator to the consumer about quality, reputation, etc.\n\n2) Yes, I think it's absolutely fair to reserve your name within your industry. I've, unfortunately, heard many horror stories from business owners who did not research or file their name & then found out they had to change their name due to another party's prior trademark or common-law rights. That resulted in major losses, economically and in terms of time & effort.\n\n3) No, not in respect to trademarks. Trademarks function as protection for the trademark owner. If another party infringes upon you by causing customer confusion, a trademark will assist you in getting that other party to cease & desist. Imagine if you had spent all this time, money & effort into your business and then find out you're losing business to infringers, who in turn are making a profit because customers are confusing them with you. That's a needless frustration.\n\nHope that helps!
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Is that intellectual property rights?\n\nYou can now put patents on genes. Recently there has been much debate on patenting altered organisms. I think you need to expand upon your question though before i witter on....
221838
Look man, I´m really interested no matter how many ideas are already out there.  \n\nBut I must say...until you have a means of materializing...we just will never know, now will we?
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Do you have a patent?  You might get some interest if you have a patent, without that, you're a long way from having anything "real" to invest in... And how did you come up with something that all of these well funded corporations, with teams of scientists cannot?  Hey, Im all for the small inventor, and if you really have something that works, you'll be a billionaire- but something smells funny about this.
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It is not possible to protect ideas but rather the representation of that idea.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links.\n\nI posted some relevant links in the source box.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Do you mean Patenting...it is the process of securing exclusivity of your invention.
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Its better to come up with your own ideas, because if you use someone else and sell your book. Thay can and more then lickly will sue you.\n\n\n I am a wright I will listen to your ideas, I bet you have more ideas then you know.
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It is fine.  People are often confused about the copyright thing, because they don't know about a tricky little thing sometimes known as the "First Sale" doctrine.\n\nWhen you buy a book, you own the book.  You own that copy of the text.  You don't own the text itself.  That is why you are not permitted to reproduce the text, make the text into a movie, put it up on billboards, and so forth without violating the copyright.  Your copy, though, you can sell, lend, or rent just like you could with a lawnmower or anything else you own.  As long as you aren't making copies of your copy, you're ok.\n\nThe same thing goes for CDs and DVDs.  When you buy the CD or the DVD, you own it but not its contents.  You are allowed to sell, lend, or rent the disc; you would not be allowed to make a music video with the disc's contents.  Get it?\n\nThe one big exception would be if you were knowingly providing the books and discs to people who you know (or should know) are going to be violating the copyright by making reproductions, distributing the reproductions, and so on.  That could make you vicariously liable, meaning that you are basically responsible for the bad actions you knew might take place and for which you were paid (a rental fee, in your case).  Your rental agreement should include an agreement by the renter to obey all relevant laws, including copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.  If you cover that gap, you should be good to go.
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Can corporations put patents on genes? What are the ethical implications on attempting to "own" what billions of years of evolution have wrought?  Do you own your own genome?
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Officially speaking - no.  They are strictly prohibited from doing that.  Getting a patent excludes everyone else from using you idea, governments included.
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Copyright is not that difficult for a person to research for himself.  But patents require a well-trained, experienced patent attorney.  It's quite a specialty, and an important one.  If anyone who has an engineering degree, hardware or software, wants to go to law school, the intersection of that education should make you very, very wealthy.  And justly so, for it is a very important specialty.\n\nBut copyright, as I say, you can research for yourself pretty well.  Here's my all-purpose recommendation for questions having to do with "people's law," if you will:  Nolo Press.  They've been doing it for a lot of years, and they are good at it (like me?).  Their web site includes a free "shark talk" dictionary, which is their somewhat biased (or at least defensive) term for legal dictionary.  That will get you on the right track, I am sure.
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There was a patent attorney that thought so just before the invention of the airplane. \n\nWhat do you think? Was HE right?
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yes, its intellectual property. you may not have registered it, but youd better have drawings, and be able to date them..ie with that days Times or whatever.. but you thunk it up... and its all yours.
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Nice to hear from a budding scientist. Today inventions and new ideas can fetch you great commercial returns. However to be the lead or even sole gainer of that idea it is wise to be able to Patent the product. There is a whole set of mechanism to get a patent. Please refer to it appropriately. \n\nNow one of the essentials of patenting is that it must a new, innovative and not an obvious idea. Also that product and idea must not be in public knowledge. So if you get the idea see if it is patentable. If so document properly and tread the patenting path cautiously.\n\nHowever if the patent is not emerging then develop the idea fully, keep you documents in place for apt time to be able to evangelise it. For dissipation of knowledge to others you could use the route of publishing in Scientific journals. The journal will depend on ur subject of work and you geographical location of work.\n\nIn case commercial exploitation is your vision then contact possible buyers or investors. These days there are a lot of angel investors who will see you through.\n\nThere are govt agencies too who take lead in motivating and building up ideas of budding scientists.\n\nHappy innovating and gaining commercial mileage.
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"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by governments to regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternately be written (c).\n\nCopyright may subsist in a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms or "works". These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, movies, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances, and, in some jurisdictions, industrial designs. Copyright is a type of intellectual property; designs or industrial designs may be a separate or overlapping form of intellectual property in some jurisdictions.\n\nCopyright law covers only the particular form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, the "form of material expression". It is not designed or intended to cover the actual idea, concepts, facts, styles, or techniques which may be embodied in or represented by the copyright work. Copyright law provides scope for satirical or interpretive works which themselves may be copyrighted. See idea-expression divide.\n\nFor example, the copyright which subsists in relation to a Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of artistic works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are sufficiently different to not be imitative of the original. Other laws may impose legal restrictions on reproduction or use where copyright does not - such as trademarks and patents."\n\nbasically copyrighting something means that you have given birth to this idea, or invention and are now telling the world that it's all yours and that no one else can copy it with out your permission, the protection part is that if someone does try to duplicate your words, or inventions, or what not by using the exact same format, then they can face a hefy fine, or even jail time. Notice how the top part is in quotes that's because I didn't say it, I mearly looked it up and transcribed it for your bennifit, and at the bottom will note where the information came from giving due credit where credit is earned.
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You have a grave misunderstanding about protecting inventions.  Copyrighting is only designed for communications media like books, photos, DVDs, etc. you cannot protect inventions with copyright.\n\nPatenting an invention is one of the most complicated and difficult and expensive things you can do, unfortunately.  A good honest patent attorney is a must, good luck.
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A trademark is a mark or a symbol which is something you own.\n\nAs for patenting a technical concept, technical concepts can be patented if they are processes or produce some unobvious item as a result. You cannot patent an idea, it must be applied to a physical object in some unobvious way.