About 5000 years B.C. with the beginning of pottery production craftsmen began to put signs that nowadays could be called trademarks. FORTIS nameplate was one of the thousands potter’s brands but it was so well-known that fraudsters began to falsify it.
A Wheel
A wheel was patented for the first time in 2001 by creative lawyer from Melbourne John Keo. The patent was granted for a round device applied to transportation of freights’. By that Joe wanted to prove imperfection of Patent Department of Australia.
A Font
The first patent in the USA was granted on November 9, 1942 to George Bruce. The main pecularity of this patents was that it did not contain any schemes or photos. The patented font was described by words. Nowadays verbal description is not necessary but each application has to include a scheme or a photo.
A utility model is a technical improvement of already existing or again created mechanism or device, a new embodiment of idea which allows to solve a certain problem in any area of engineering.
Invention is a new solution of a task in any sphere that gives a positive effect and relates to a device, substance, a microorganism strain, culture of cells of plants or animals and also to a method.
Industrial sample is a new original solution of a product defining its design and properties: its form, configuration, ornament and combination of colors.
Copyright is an established by the legislation right of some persons to works of science, literature or art created by creative activity of the same or other persons.