Do I need a patent, trademark, and/or a copyright?
Patents - (Utility, Design, or Plant) protect inventions and improvements to existing inventions.
Trademarks - are words, names, symbols, devices and/or use images which are applied to products or used in connection with goods or services to identify their source.
Copyrights - protect the expression of ideas in literary, artistic and musical works.
This guide contains information to assist in filing a non-provisional utility patent application. It specifies the required parts of the utility patent application and identifies some of the forms which may be used.
The Index to the U. S. Patent Classification System is an alphabetical list of subject headings referring to specific classes and subclasses of the classification system.
