How Can I Protect My Intellectual Property From Being Plagiarized, Without Patenting It?
Posted by Copyright Law on July 9th, 2009 at 10:25am
(1) How can I protect my intellectual property from being plagiarized, without patenting it?
This sometimes occur when a person is totally ignorant of the risk of intellectual plagiarism in the world or really have no clue of the current patenting procedures.
(2)Do majority of new technologies that came out from those prominent schools like MIT, Harvard… not patented before they appear in news articles? If yes, are there any ready assistance of the legal system to help their students patent their ideas from within their schools?
I appreciate and thank you.
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1 Comment for How Can I Protect My Intellectual Property From Being Plagiarized, Without Patenting It?
1. Biofreak | July 9th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
(1) If you insist on not getting a patent, then you are insisting to forgo the measures that are intended to protect your intellectual property. So you really have no way of protecting that property. The only thing you can do is hide it from those who would want to duplicate it.
(2) Yes, the majority of useful and patentable ideas that come out of universities are patented. All major universities have programs or departments that facilitate the patenting of ideas and products. In fact, this is a major source of income for universities, so these departments are usually quite substantial and efficient. However, universities claim the patent rights to all work that is done by students using university resources, for university classes, or at university labs. This is quite similar to the way businesses retain the patent rights to the work of their employees, instead of the employees themselves having patent rights. What compensation the students get for their patented ideas depends on the university. Many schools give the ‘inventor’ some percentage of any profits as an incentive to patent, while others do not.
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