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Understanding Intellectual Property

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Intellectual Property (IP) Courses Copyright Courses Patents Courses Trademarks Courses Trade Secrets Courses Intellectual Property Rights Courses

Course Description

Overview

Discover the basics of intellectual property rights, and how you can best safeguard your ideas and avoid infringement.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What is intellectual property?
1. Copyrights
  • What is copyright law?
  • Copyright ownership
  • How long a copyright lasts
  • Using others' work
  • 10% myth
  • Copyright infringement
  • Infringement remedies
  • Copyright infringement consequences
  • Copyright defenses
2. Trademarks
  • What is trademark law?
  • Copyrights vs. trademarks
  • Trademark rights
  • Due diligence
  • Losing a trademark
  • Shapes and colors can be protected
  • Preparing to trademark
  • Trademark priority
  • Trademarking your work
  • Filing a trademark
  • Filing a trademark internationally
  • Common law trademark rights
  • Filing different types of trademarks
  • What to expect after filing
  • Post-registration trademark maintenance
  • Trademark infringement
  • Consequences and defenses of infringement
3. Patents
  • What is a patent?
  • What does a patent look like?
  • Provisional vs. utility patents
  • Who can obtain patent rights?
  • Sharing ideas prior to filing a patent
  • Patenting software and applications
  • Patenting your ideas
  • Filing a patent application
  • Patent ownership
  • Myth of the poor man's patent
  • Patent infringement
  • Defenses and remedies to patent infringement
4. Trade Secrets
  • What is a trade secret?
  • What does trade secret law protect?
  • Trade secret infringement
  • Defenses and remedies to trade secret infringement
5. Rights of Publicity
  • What is rights-of-publicity law?
  • Model releases
  • Post-mortem rights of publicity
  • Exceptions to rights-of-publicity law
  • Preventing rights-of-publicity infringement
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Dana Robinson

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