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Patent, Trademark, and Copyright
Patent, trademark, service marks, and copyrights provide a mean to promote new ideas and inventions and at the same time to protect the inventors’ intellectual properties (فكري)
These are examples of means by which intellectual property is protected by the U.S. laws
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Patent
Trade Mark
Copyright
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Patent
The right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in U.S. or importing the invention into U.S.
Does not grant the inventor the right to make, use, or sell the invention, it excludes others for doing so.
New patent is protected for 20 years from the date the patent application is filed
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Trademark
Trademark is a name, word, or symbol that a company uses to distinguish its products from others
Excludes others from using the same or similar mark
It does not prevent others from making the same or similar products
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Service Mark
Service mark is a name, word, or symbol that a company uses to distinguish its services from others
Excludes others from using the same or similar mark
It does not prevent others from providing the same or similar services
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Copyright
Protection provided by the laws of the U.S. to the authors of “original works of authorship”
Covers literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and other types of intellectual works
Covers both published and unpublished work
Protects form of expression, not the content or the subject matter
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Engineering Standards and Codes
Developed over the years by various organizations to ensure product safety and reliability in services, and uniformity in parts and components
Why do we need standards and codes?
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Engineering Standards and Codes
To insure product safety and reliability
The standardization organizations set the authoritative standards for safe food supplies, safe structures, safe water systems, safe and reliable electric systems, safe and reliable transportation systems, safe and reliable transportation systems, safe and reliable communication systems.
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Engineering Standards and Codes (continued)
Standards allow for easy way to communicate the size of a product
For example, if we had global standards for shirts and shoes, then the above cross referenced tables would not be necessary
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Engineering Standards and Codes (continued)
Example of an engineered product that adhere to many standards
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