Consumers have the right to use Insulan meters without paying exorbitant prices for test strips. Insulan's IP attorney has never before considered copyright but wants to enjoin Cramden from copying its instructions. If you answer more, I will count only the first 20. The patent and copyright clause of the Constitution is the source of Congressional power to regulate trademarks. Trade secret protection often requires substantial expense.
Statutes often provide that so-called intellectual property is, in law, property.
The acts of the defendants in Deepsouth presently constitute infringement under U.S. patent law. Acts found to infringe in Bolar Pharmaceutical no longer do so. Making a doll in the shape of a cartoon character constitutes copyright infringement. Even though copyright protection arises automatically, it does not protect, e.g., a business scheme as soon its author writes it down. 301 voids all state law governing copyright.