Brian Kunzler - Protecting Intellectual Property

1. Precautions
• Copyrighted material
– If it is not your own original content or if you haven’t
purchased the content, you are infringing a copyright
– Don’t include photos, figures, etc. that you don’t own
• Trademarks
– Anything that identifies a source of good and services
– The sooner you use your trademark the better
– Are you infringing another trademark?
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2. Precautions
• Patentable material
– Public disclosure before filing a patent
• You immediately lose all ability to file in a foreign country
• You start a 1-year grace period in the US in which to file a
patent application
– File at least a provisional patent application before the
disclosure
• A quality provisional takes time, but it’s better to have a
lower quality provisional than to disclose too early
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3. For Consultation
Contact:
Bruce Needham
(801)994-4646
bneedham@kunzlerlaw.com
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