These words which freeflow from your computer monitor to your brain through your eyes ... ARE COPYRIGHT! This article takes a look at this strange beast the law calls "copyright", represented by the little "c" in a circle, and which afflicts all the sheet music, plays, web pages, books, movies and newspapers we enjoy. And that's ©!
Patents are little legal robots with 20-year life spans that give inventors monopolies for their original machines. They are handy and very valuable little devices and have made - and continue to make - many an "old money" fortune.
Trade-marks or, to use the USA usage, "trademarks", are used by persons selling goods or services to distinguish these from those of others, as duhaime.org does with it's domain name or the underlying law firm, Duhaime Law™ does with those words and Affordable Justice®. This article looks at the law of trade-marks.