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unpublished literary, dramatic and musical works of which the author has died (unpublished in the sense of the proviso to s. 2(3) of the 1956 Act); unpublished engravings of which the author has died; unpublished photographs taken on or after 1 June 1957;
The website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office states that "the text and drawings of a patent are typically not subject to copyright restrictions," [5] and similar views have been published by patent attorneys. [6] As one unpublished academic working paper on the topic of copyright application to patents notes, however, there is ...
35 U.S.C. § 271(f) (Patent Act) Liability for such unauthorized replication and installation of software in foreign countries must arise under the patent laws of foreign countries. Although a patent case, it discusses the nature of what is a copy of software. Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick: 559 U.S. 154: 2010: 8–0: Procedural: Registration ...
In the former Soviet Union, under the 1961 Fundamentals, copyrights held by legal entities such as companies were defined to be perpetual; if a company was reorganized, its legal successor entity took over the copyrights, and if a company ceased to exist, the copyrights passed to the state.
The latter provision is a transitional measure from the 1988 Act because that Act abolished perpetual copyright protection for unpublished materials. It is 50 years after the commencement of the 1988 Act plus the usual expiration extension to the end of the year.
Prior art (also known as state of the art [1] or background art [2]) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention meets the novelty and the inventive step or non-obviousness criteria for patentability.
The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (Pub. L. 82–256, 66 Stat. 3, enacted February 1, 1952, codified at 35 U.S.C. ch. 17) is a body of United States federal law designed to prevent disclosure of new inventions and technologies that, in the opinion of selected federal agencies, present an alleged threat to the economic stability or national security of the United States.
(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.