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Personal property can be private or public.

A claim for misappropriation may never be brought when a trade secret has been obtained.

Since computer software is a compilation of binary code expressed in 1 and 0, all software is not copyrighted.

Unlike trade secrets, a patent can last forever.

The Goophone, which looks virtually identical to the iPhone, but lacks many of the iPhone’s features and does not run on the iPhone’s software, can legally be sold in the United States regardless of whether it infringes on Apple’s intellectual property rights to the iPhone.

The prior appropriation doctrine grants the property owner adjacent to a water source rights to use the water.

Applicants are permitted to use which term in marketing to warn others that a patent claim has been filed?

Trademarks cannot contain the U.S. flag or any government symbol.

A copyrighted work is automatically copyrighted upon its creation.

Washington State has a law that requires every county and city to develop a comprehensive plan and development regulations in most of the state.