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Jan 30, 2005, 8:14 PM
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Censored: Trademark or Patent, NOT copyright.
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Hi,
That is where "Trademark" comes in.
If you make a dogbone shaped placemat for dogs, you do not get an exclusive to dog bone shaped placemats, unless you can show some unique idea and get a PATENT on it.
But, if you call your dog bone shaped placemats "Doggone Good Mats" you *can* get a trademark on that name, so that no one else can do the same thing.
Since a placemat is a non-patentable item, in general, it would be a hard sell to the patent office.
But if your placemat had a unique means of holding a dog bone in place, or preventing water spills, then you might be able to get a patent -- but you'd still need a trademark to protect the trade name.
One thing is completely non-patentable -- Perpetual Motion Machines -- so don't bother.
Don't confuse issues. It might be helpful to think of COPYRIGHT is on the actual NON FUNCTIONAL design. A functional design gets patented, and a name or trade name gets patented.
On another group, a discussion of "algorithms" was made, about a lady who recently (past 10 years or so) got a patent on a means of folding a map. She didn't get any rights to any maps, but the mans of folding them for distribution or use was a novel enough idea, she got a patent.
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