RE: Patent Question

[P3D Alexa R.W. Smith <arws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:25:42 -0400 (EDT)
> From: P3D Diane Leigh Davison  <ddavison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: PATENTS
> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.961017142137.14788C-100000@xxxx>
> 
> To Alexa & others:
> The "advice" you gave to self-mail your "ideas" re: patents is not good
> advice. It is a myth that is still believed by people with respect to
> patents & copyrights that is constantly perpetuated by non-attorneys. This
> WILL NOT protect your copyrights or patents!!! The only way to effectively
> and statutorilly protect your intellectual property is to federally
> register them. Anything short of that has no practical or true
> legal protection....
> -Diane.
> Diane Leigh Davison, Esquire
> ddavison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://mail.bcpl.lib.md.us/~ddavison/home.html
>  

Ok, now I am going to have to find the book written by an attorney where this 
idea was stated! <smile>  I am more familiar with copyright than patent, so if 
this is wrong, then everyone ignore my previous message!

One question I have for you re: copyright though is that I though you are 
protected even without registration if it was created after 1979(?) and it isn't
published material?  Even if it is published, I thought it was also protected 
although if you hadn't registered within 3 months of publication, you lose some 
of the protection.  I called the U.S. copyright office about a month ago and 
this was some of what was said to me.  They also said that if your work is 
displayed on the internet, pretty soon that will be considered published.

(I know this is somewhat off-topic for 3D but I know many of us here create 
images and since we have an attorney here might as well take advantage of it!)

Thanks,
Alexa



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