FERNDALE – The Young Basile law firm’s Keith Schonberger joins us on M2 TechCast to explain the differences between patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. It seems that many people do not understand the difference in these types of intellectual property.
His discussion asks the following questions:
What are the different types of intellectual property protectable in the US?
What is a patent?
What is a trademark?
What is a copyright?
What is a trade secret?
A trade secret sounds a lot like a patent, so what’s the difference between them?
Can some things be protected by more than one type of intellectual property?
Does a person have to register each of these things with an office in order to protect their IP?
Are there deadlines for registering them?
But what about something being “patent pending” – do I really not have rights until the patent is issued?
Is there some secret way to get different types of IP protected under one instrument?
What if a company doesn’t want to put the effort into protecting their IP?
If my competitor starts selling things that my business created, be it an invention or a product labeled with my logo, can’t I sue them for infringement?
To hear the answers to these questions, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2-32-young-basile-intellectual-property-update?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit#t=0:00
