How do you go about finding out if an idea, item, phrase, or word has been legally protected; ex. patented copyrighted, trademarked, etc.? What if you have one of these things and you want to protect it or register it? How much does it cost?
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I'm pretty sure "maybe maybe no" has already been copyrighted. I'm not sure about "It's summer people suppose get horny" or "Hispanic?"
http://www.inventors.org/ <-- good place to start your research and http://www.patentstuff.com an idea, item, <-- patentable but for an idea it would have to very well fleshed out . . .Ideas really cannot be patented in that they are intangible. You can perhaps patent a process . . .software, etc but just going . . Flying Car. . . unless you do drawings about HOW it can be done. . .won't cut it phrase, or word <-- I beleive these fall under copyrights and trademarks Rocket River
http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/workflow/start.htm This is the free gov site, it is easy to use and full of info. edit: I forgot the link to tess http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=tra0nd.1.1 that is the trademark search site, I have used this before applying for trademarks and it is a good source for finding competitors trademarks that have lapsed (in case you ever need to play hard ball)
