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Copyright and Trademark Basics for Consultants
Thursday November 8, 2012 from 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Buca di Beppo
1875 S. Bascom Ave.
Campbell, California 95008 Get Directions
Being a successful consultant or small business owner requires a basic understanding of the law pertaining to copyright and trademark. You can lose important legal rights by failing to address these legal issues in your contract language with your clients, and it's critical to avoid infringing on the copyright and trademark rights of other business entities. Attorney Jonathan Sweet, a frequent speaker to PATCA on contracts issues, returns to cover the following topics:

COPYRIGHT:
* Matters Protected
* Originality Requirement
* Protection of Expression Rather than Ideas
* Elements for Infringement
* Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
* Defenses

TRADEMARK
* Basis for trademark protection
* Trademark dilution
* Federal trademark infringement
* Likelihood of confusion
* Secondary meaning doctrine
* Abandonment of a trademark
* "In commerce" analysis
* Federal unfair competition
* Common-law unfair competition
* State statutory grounds
* Fair Use defense
* Other defenses

Bring your ideas and questions to enhance the value of the presentation. The speaker will survey the attendees to focus on the above topics that are most pertinent to them.
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