Trademark & Copyright

A "Trademark" means any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination thereof, adopted and used by a person to identify goods made or sold by him, and to distinguish them from goods made or sold by others. Trademarks are issued through the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Registering a trademark provides the registrant with the exclusive right to use that mark in connection with the goods or services registered.

A Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of "original works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly.

The copyright protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the writing. For example, a description of a machine could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying the description; it would not prevent others from writing a description of their own or from making and using the machine. Copyrights are registered by the Library of Congress' Copyright Office.

Some typical services we offer includes:

• Applications for trademark and copyright registration
• Maintenance and renewal of registration