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Exploring Copyright in Graphical User Interface

Intepat

However, protecting these interfaces involves navigating complex layers of copyright, design patents, and other intellectual property laws that cover specific aspects of GUIs. In the United States, GUIs can receive protection through both copyright and design patents.

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Protection of Copyrights in China

IP and Legal Filings

Voluntary registration for your copyright is available in China. Though your work is automatically protected by copyright the moment it is created, voluntary registration will provide proof of ownership, which can save you time and money in case of a dispute later on. you should strongly consider registering your copyright.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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What is intellectual property (IP)?

Patent Trademark Blog

Depending upon whether your idea relates to appearance or function, you can file either a design patent application or utility patent application. Here’s a helpful article on filing a utility patent application and another one filing a design patent application. They only protect specific expressions.

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

These rights provide exclusive ownership and control over intangible assets, allowing creators to protect their innovations from unauthorised use, reproduction, or distribution. Firstly, intellectual property rights grant startups exclusive ownership over their innovative ideas and inventions.

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How to Protect Software as Intellectual Property

LexBlog IP

Copyright Protection for Source Code. Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs) for Ownership. Copyright Protection for Source Code. In 1979, Congress decided that software source code would qualify for a similar scope of protection as literature under copyright law due to its typographical nature.

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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

IP Tech Blog

Article 3 of the China Copyright Law defines copyrightable works as intellectual creations with originality in the realm of literature, art or science that can be represented in a certain form (the “tangibility” requirement in the US) and expands its scope by including other intellectual creations that meet the characteristics of works.

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