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My Word! Design Patents on a Typeface

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A company can use a unique typeface to convey pretty much anything on any of its products, its advertising, its website, and any other place a company would publicly use the written word. That means after those 15 years pass, then anyone can use the typeface as far as patent law is concerned.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

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Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” ” US Const., It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. . “The basic premise of [S]ection 105.[is]