DVDs and Course Book
This October 31, 2013, 3.3-hour program by Michael J. Hutter, Esquire, offers a thorough review of intellectual property law for the general practitioner. Mr. Hutter is Professor of Law at Albany Law School and Special Counsel to the Albany law firm of Powers & Santola, LLP.
Topics include:
Protecting Intellectual Property
Trademarks
• definitions, sources of protection, nature and scope
• protective subject matter
• source identifying function: distinctiveness
• use and priority
• registration under the Lanham Act
• enforcement
Trade Secret Appropriation
•sources of protection
• protectable subject matter
• economic value, secrecy, reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy
•misappropriation, remedies
Copyright
• sources of copyright law
• copyright basics and requirements
• exclusive rights of the owner, infringement
• copyright myths
Patents
• sources of patent law
• patent basics
• patentable subject matter
• patentability requirements
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