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trademark(not trademark info, copyright)
Patents are more involved I believe but you can download a form, fill it out and send it in along with a drawing or other documentation of your design, a photograph on DVD or CD will work, and send $35 the last I knew to get a registered copyright. Copyrights aren't worth much, a registered coopyright!pyright is legal proof of ownership and puts the ball in the other person's court to prove otherwise.
A warning, a 10% change qualifies for a new patent, I don't know what you can trademark or how much change it takes to get around a trademark.
Hu
Dawgie said:I have an design idea for a pool cue that I would like to patent or trademark. I don't think this particular design has been done. At least I've never see it on a pool cue.
How does one go about to patent, trademark a design?
Patents are more involved I believe but you can download a form, fill it out and send it in along with a drawing or other documentation of your design, a photograph on DVD or CD will work, and send $35 the last I knew to get a registered copyright. Copyrights aren't worth much, a registered coopyright!pyright is legal proof of ownership and puts the ball in the other person's court to prove otherwise.
A warning, a 10% change qualifies for a new patent, I don't know what you can trademark or how much change it takes to get around a trademark.
Hu
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Dawgie said:I have an design idea for a pool cue that I would like to patent or trademark. I don't think this particular design has been done. At least I've never see it on a pool cue.
How does one go about to patent, trademark a design?
A patent, trademark, and copyright are similar but serve different purposes. This link will explain it all: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/whatis.htm
You are probably looking at a copyright not a patent or trademark.
Patents are in two categories - technical (how something works) and ornamental (how something looks).
It's much easier to get an ornamental (design) patent and it's also much weaker.
You cannot copyright an idea. You cannot copyright a pool cue design as it is decoration on an instrument. You cannot copyright commercial goods.
However that does not mean you cannot claim a copyright and you certainly can register whatever you are claiming. You can slap a copyright notice on anything you create and it will only be tested if you actually end up in a dispute with someone who copied you.
Everything is explained at the patent and tradmark office. www.uspto.gov
As well there are plenty of websites pertaining to intellectual property.
It's much easier to get an ornamental (design) patent and it's also much weaker.
You cannot copyright an idea. You cannot copyright a pool cue design as it is decoration on an instrument. You cannot copyright commercial goods.
However that does not mean you cannot claim a copyright and you certainly can register whatever you are claiming. You can slap a copyright notice on anything you create and it will only be tested if you actually end up in a dispute with someone who copied you.
Everything is explained at the patent and tradmark office. www.uspto.gov
As well there are plenty of websites pertaining to intellectual property.