The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) has a conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intellectual Property (IP) rights recently. The theme of the conference was to determine to what extent the creations and inventions of AI are patentable. There are a...
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Intellectual Property
Do you have to register a copyright to enforce it?
Perhaps you are a creative professional who writes, draws or publishes enhanced photography. Maybe you are a business that creates, publishes or purchases unique creative content for marketing or product purposes. Original works and creative products can attract...
Someone stole your original content for their website: What now?
You work hard to create original, engaging content that will keep readers coming to your blog and keep your website high in the search engine results pages. Thus, finding out that your content has been pilfered and is being used somewhere else is frustrating. It’s...
Patents, copyrights and trademarks: What’s the difference
In the modern business environment, the most valuable asset you may have is your company’s intellectual property. Just the same, it’s common for people to misunderstand the differences between copyrights, patents and trademarks. Here’s what you should know. What is a...
What can you do when another company steals your logo?
Good branding can make or break a company. When customers know and trust your product, they will look for your logo or brand name when making a purchase. Unfortunately, with success comes the risk of someone trying to elbow in on your market. Unscrupulous competitors...
With 5G on the horizon, patent fights between owners and innovators escalate
5G technology is set to change the way people communicate—in Atlanta and around the globe. It will allow for an instantaneous exchange of information between devices. Additionally, it will allow for more efficient information retrieval from so called “dumb” devices...
How does Georgia define a trade secret?
All Georgia businesses want to protect their intellectual property from competitors, but defining intellectual property can be difficult. George has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and the statute provides a usable definition of trade secrets. Unless a firm has...
Key points about intellectual property and trademark infringement
Creating a new product or service is an exciting time for Georgia residents who are starting a business or already have a functioning business. For those who have a product and want to protect intellectual property from trademark infringement, it is important to...
Determining publication in the digital age
Copyrights protects the fruits of authorship or creation such as literature. But a recent digital registration option proposed by the U.S. Copyright Office for short online literary works, known as GRTX, generated controversy and presents intellectual property legal...
Appeals judges reinstate ‘Pirates’ copyright infringement lawsuit
Millions of people in Georgia and around the country flocked to cinemas in 2003 to see the Disney release “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.” The film was a huge box-office success and spawned four sequels to date. It is also at the center of a...