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Trademark Patent & Copyright
Patent & Trademark Violation Patent infringement and trademark violations are two different arenas. It involves the use, marketing, sale, or profit from and invention that is patented under Someone else’s name or company. A trademark violator is someone who has attempted to use a Company’s or individual’s trademark for personal or financial gain. A trademark is the company’s or individual’s “calling card”, the logo or point of reference used by that company to create associations. For e.g. : - Coca-Cola is a registered trademark, and thus anyone marketing under the name Coca-Cola would then be a trademark violator. Anyone who rebottled Coca-Cola in a different Packaging and sold it as a Coke product is then looking at patent infringement. It occurs when you steal someone else’s invention (or create it on your own) and then market it as your own product.
Copyright Infringement
copyright is infringed when anyone distributes anything either for trade or in a way affecting prejudicially the owner of the copyright. Copyright protection has never been and cannot be applied rigidly to avoid hampering of progress in the society particularly in academic and research frontiers. A balance is always maintained between the interest of the creator and of the community while applying the law by the executive and judiciary. Most of the social purpose activities are exempted from the operation of the act. Research and private study are specifically among them. So there is no much to guard against any act which you are convinced as bonafide and can prove to be a non-commercial academic activity.
The word distributes is not much important, but the resultant effect of the action of distribution is more important when somebody looks through the eyes of the law. The law is now being carefully looked upon as the copying is an easier task and digital world permits copying and distributing anything easier than ever before leading to so frequent violations.
