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You are a business owner with a web presence. During a routine Google search for your page ranking, you discover something disturbing. There is another company out there with a name very similar to yours and almost identical content on their website. What do you do? Is your company name and website content automatically protected by copyright law? Should you have registered your company name as a trademark? Can you demand that they change their name and dismantle their website immediately?
Intellectual Property can be a confusing topic, and one that all business owners should know about. Sadly however, many entrepreneurs simply don't. Intellectual property is in very simple terms an idea that legally belongs to somebody, be they a company or an individual. Only the owner of that idea, or somebody the owner has a legal agreement with can use the idea. Generally, the owner of the idea is usually its creator unless someone paid them to create the idea, in which case the idea's owner is the person who paid for the idea. There are different kinds of intellectual property, but for the purpose of this article, we will focus on copyright, patent and trademark.
Patent - A patent protects the creators of new inventions. An invention can include anything from a new product or business method to a recipe. If you decide to patent your invention, there a few things you should know. First, you will need to apply for a patent in every country where you would like your invention to be protected. Secondly, getting a patent is going to cost you a pretty penny. You will have to pay thousands of dollars to patent your idea and it will take a minimum of 2 years (probably more) before you are granted a patent. Also, your precious invention will no longer remain a secret since your patent application will be made public once your application is submitted. If all of this wasn't enough bad news, patent protection generally only lasts for twenty years from the date of your application. Phew! On the up side, once your patent is accepted, you can sue anyone who tries to manufacture or sell your invention.
It's worth mentioning here that another method to keep your invention protected is to keep the method of manufacturing it a 'trade secret'. If you choose this process, of course, in order to manufacture your product, you will have to tell somebody. You would have to have anyone who would learn your secret sign a confidentiality agreement. Consult a lawyer if you plan to use this method.
Trademark - Trademarks are the marks used to distinguish one company's products or services from another's. They can include a product name, a slogan, and any other mark that is deemed to be unique to a company such as a logo or unique packaging. As a rule, you can't trademark descriptive words, geographical names or a person's name. You also cannot register a business' name. You can however, register part of a name used to identify a product or service. For example "Kellogg's Company" is the owner of the "Kellogg's" trademark and the "Rice Krispies" trademark. You cannot register a trademark similar to one that is already in use by another company. Beware; a trademark does not have to be registered in order to prevent others from using it. If a company is using an unregistered trademark in your geographical area, they can still prevent you from using it. You could perform a search in a trademark database and find later that you are using another company's unregistered trademark. If you find another company in a completely different industry using your unregistered trademark, you probably won't be able to do anything about it if they are not your competitors or if they are not in your geographical vicinity. Protection of a registered trademark however, is much stronger than an unregistered one, and once you have a registered trademark, you can prevent competitors from using it, or confusingly similar ones anywhere in the country in which your trademark is registered.
Copyright - Any written text, artistic work, or computer program is automatically protected by copyright. Anything you or I write, be it published, online text or unpublished, handwritten text, is copyrighted. Also anything we draw, paint, photograph, film, or compose is also protected by copyright. Copyright can be registered, but it doesn't have to be in order for it to be illegal for individuals to copy someone else's work. Copyright also lasts for an extremely long time. Usually it lasts the duration of the author's life plus fifty years at which point it becomes a part of the public domain and can be used by anyone.
Factual information cannot be copyrighted. For example, this article is based on fact. Although you cannot copy my article and claim to have authored it yourself, you can take the facts included in the article and use them in your own written material. If you would like to use a very small portion of someone else's written work, this is usually acceptable as long as you credit the author.
Finally, what do you do if someone uses your work without your permission? Your first step should be to contact the individual. You can usually either go to the contact page on the offender's web site or go to http://www.whois.com and enter the offender's domain to find contact information. If your initial communication doesn't get results, you should then send a 'cease and desist order'. For sample orders, just perform a search on 'cease and desist orders'. Finally if still no action is taken by the offending party, contact their web host and advise them of the situation and finally, contact search engines and make them aware of the situation. These actions should render the offender's website useless or in the very least give them enough trouble to convince them to remove the copied material.
For more information on intellectual property in Canada, visit the Canadian Intellectual Property Office at http://www.cipo.ca, for the U.S., visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office at http://www.uspto.gov and for Europe please visit the European Patent Office at http://www.european-patent-office.org
Summer is already here and you know what that means - tan, beach, and no classes (fortunately for students). But there is still an important thing about summer why we really long for it, and that's summer desserts. And of course, what's first on our list? That's none other than our favorite Philippine food - Halo-halo.
Ever since I was a kid, Halo-halo has already been my favorite summer treat (actually not just for summer but for the whole year!). The sweet taste of its ingredients topped with creamy, ice cream or leche flan just makes everyone seeing it crave for it. So, what's with this halo-halo that makes us Filipinos love it? Let's start from the top - Ice cream. We all know that ice cream alone is already a wonderful treat during summer, and combining it with many other sweet ingredients and (of course) a lot of ice, who would not love it right? The next cool thing about it is the combination of many wonderful fruits and other ingredients inside. Red beans, garbanzos, kaong, macapuno, langka, gulaman, sago, nata de coco, sweet potato, plantain caramelized in sugar, pinipig, and leche flan are just some of the ingredients you can add to it. Well, all of these ingredients in just one clear glass, who would say no to this? And one good thing about it is that there is no limit on what you want to add, as long as you think that it tastes good, go, add it! Another great thing about halo-halo is the ice. It is known for having many shaved ice that adds to the excitement of eating it. This treat would really satisfy your cravings for a cold summer dessert So, now that we know what makes halo-halo a Filipino favorite, why don't we try to do one? The good thing about this is that you don't have to exert much just for you to experience the fun of eating halo-halo. So, how do we prepare our favorite halo-halo?
Halo-halo, as what its name mean is all about mixing different ingredients that all-in-all makes a good tasting dessert. So, here are your ingredients 1 ripe large banana, 2 ripe mangoes or 1 cup canned ripe mango, 1 cup firm gelatin set into gel and cut into 1/2-inch cubes, 1 cup canned ripe jackfruit, 1/2 cup sweet corn or chick peas (garbanzos), 1 cup young shredded coconut, fresh or canned, 1 cup cooked sweet yams or (ube halaya) glutinous purple yam, cut into 1-inch cubes, 2 cup shaved ice, 2 cup milk, 4 scoops of favorite ice cream, 1/2 cup chopped peanuts or rice crispies, and if available leche flan. So, here's how it's done, first, peel the mangoes and slice its meat in ½ inch cubes, discard the seed. Now, prepare tall glasses from where your halo-halo will be put, and divide the ingredients into equal parts, depending on how many tall glasses you've prepared. In each glass, place ¼ of each ingredient. Adding the ingredients layer by layer, starting from the beans, to the fruits such as jackfruit, and gelatin, for it to have a good and appealing presentation. You can now top this with ½ cup of shaved ice. Pour milk of ¼ cup on top of the shaved ice. Then put Ice cream on top and leche flan or ube. And that's how you do your very own halo-halo.
This halo-halo is truly one of our original Filipino recipes that all of us love. So, why not try to prepare some for your family this summer! Enjoy eating!
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One of the most common questions people ask is: 'How do you make crunchy no bake cookies?' Most people have no problems making wonderful, soft, gooey, cookies, but, when it comes to great tasting crunchy no bake cookies, there are a lot of failed recipes.
The remedy is simple. If you want a crunchy texture to come out, you have to put something crunchy in. But first, a clear distinction needs to be made between the desired crunchy texture of a perfect cookie, and, the hard, teeth-chipping texture when your cookies have been over cooked. So, first and foremost, do not overheat any of your ingredients and you won't be left with hard, inedible cookies.
There are lots of ingredients that can be added to cookies to provide a crunchy texture. If you like nuts, a couple of ounces of chopped walnuts, almonds, or, Brazil nuts will add crunch. A little trick of mine is to use my coffee grinder to chop up my nuts - why buy another grinder when you already have one?
If you don't eat nuts, or don't have any available, a handful of cereal can add crunch, and flavor, to your cookies. Rice Krispies, and Frosted Corn Flakes are two of the most popular additions.
Adding crunchy peanut butter will work, as will putting some graham crackers in the blender (or coffee grinder)for a couple of seconds. You can also crumble some vanilla wafers to add to your cookies. The key thing you need to remember is that most of the items mentioned here contain a lot of sugar, so, just reduce the amount of sugar called for in the recipe otherwise the cookies may be overly sweet.
This recipe is an old favorite of mine. The cookies have lots of crunch and are a welcome change to the standard oatmeal and peanut butter no bake cookies
No Bake Rice Krispie & Date Nut Cookies
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup Sugar
1 Egg- beaten
1 cup chopped Dates
2 cups Rice Krispies
1/2 cup chopped nuts (any variety)
1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
1 pinch Salt (can be omitted)
1/2 pack shredded Coconut,
Put the butter, sugar, egg and dates in a saucepan and heat on medium high for five minutes, stirring constantly. Let stand until lukewarm. Mix the Rice Krispies, nuts, vanilla, and salt in a large bowl and add the cooled liquid. Fold the mixture together and then form into small balls. Finish by rolling in coconut and making a pyramid display on a nice china sweet plate.
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