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The most common way that real property is acquired is through inheritance.

Chartered Financial Analyst is an example of a certification mark.

A trademark is valid as long as consumers believe that the mark is associated with a specific producer.

In recent years, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been used by companies to prevent competitors from making replacement garage door openers on the grounds that the replacements circumvent a copy protection device.

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.