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Grant/Registration

Grant of Patent

A patent grant is the award of a property right by the USPTO to an inventor over an invention, process, machine, or design for a limited period of time. A grant of patent rights lasts for 20 years for utility patents and 15 years for design patents. Patent grants are made to applicants who have successfully prosecuted their patent applications. A grant of patent rights only protects and inventor in the United States. A grant of patent rights allows an inventor to stop others from using, making, selling, offering to sell, and importing the patented invention to the United States without the patent holder’s express permission for a limited period of time.

Trademark Registration

A trademark distinguishes your products or services from your competition. It can be anything. A sign, an expression or a word; your imagination is the limit here. It deserves utmost importance because it is the thing that market uses to identify your company. Trademark is considered to be an intellectual property. Trademark Act, 1999 protects trademarks and all related rights from infringement. And to avail this protection, you need to register your trademark. When doing so, you protect your trademark from copyright violations. Your trademark stands protected as long as you renew it within the stipulated timeframe.

Design Registration

“Design” means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition of lines or colors applied to any article whether in two dimensional or three dimensional or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye; but does not include any mode or principle of construction or anything which is in substance a mere mechanical device and does not include any trademark. Design Registration is just like copyright registration or any intellectual property right registration that gives the exclusive right to make, sell, and use articles that embody the protected design registration, to selected people only.

Copyright Registration

Iyou wish to protect your work from illegal access and unauthorized takeover, then copyright registration is the way to go. The best part is that Copyright registration is a one-time process. That means once your work is covered under copyright law, you never need to roam around the authorities to renew it every year. It has lifetime validity and provides comprehensive protection to your work against illegal access or infringement practices. This article will unveil the list of the Documents required for the copyright registration. Those who avail the copyright registration are legally authorized to reproduce, distribute, and display their copyrighted work. They also have the right to encourage others to follow the same path. It’s important to keep in mind that copyright law has limited applicability and its only safeguards “original works of authorship” available in the tangible form.

Grant/Registration

Grant of Patent

Trademark Registration

Design Registration

Copyright Registration

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