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Trademark Usage
The AgeWorks website contains the proper usage, definitions, and
inventory of AgeWorks copyrights, trademarks, service marks, and
registration marks. For additional information, questions, or concerns
about proper usage of these marks please contact by the following
email or office address:
legal@ageworks.com
AgeWorks Legal Office
University of Southern California
Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center
3715 McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191
Definitions:
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United
States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works
of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic,
and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available
to both published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976
Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive
right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
- To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
- To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
- To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work
to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental,
lease, or lending;
- To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary,
musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion
pictures and other audiovisual works;
- To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the
case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works,
pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including
the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual
work; and
- In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work
publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
In addition, certain authors of works of visual art have the rights
of attribution and integrity as described in section 106A of the
1976 Copyright Act. For further information, request Circular 40,
"Copyright Registration for Works of the Visual Arts."
It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided by
the copyright law to the owner of copyright. These rights, however,
are not unlimited in scope. Sections 107 through 121 of the 1976
Copyright Act establish limitations on these rights. In some cases,
these limitations are specified exemptions from copyright liability.
One major limitation is the doctrine of "fair use," which
is given a statutory basis in section 107 of the 1976 Copyright
Act. In other instances, the limitation takes the form of a "compulsory
license" under which certain limited uses of copyrighted works
are permitted upon payment of specified royalties and compliance
with statutory conditions. For further information about the limitations
of any of these rights, consult the copyright law or write to the
Copyright Office.
Trademarks
and Servicemarks
A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade
with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish
them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark
except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service
rather than a product. The terms "trademark" and "mark"
are commonly used to refer to both trademarks and servicemarks.
Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly
similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods
or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different
mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce
may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. The registration
procedure for trademarks and general information concerning trademarks
is described in a separate pamphlet entitled "Basic Facts about
Trademarks".
Throughout AgeWorks websites trademarks and service marks will be
denoted by the ("TM") and ("SM") symbols respectively.
As commonly used, ("TM") and ("SM") symbols
will typically be superscripted to the right of the last letter
of the mark.
Registration Symbol
The letter R within a circle - ® - is a symbol signifying federal
trademark registration. The federal registration symbol is used
once a mark (a trademark or service mark) is actually registered
with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Even though an application
for registration may be pending, a registration symbol may not be
used before a mark has actually become registered. The registration
symbol is typically superscripted to the right of the last letter
of the mark.
Attribution Notice
Notice identifying the registered owner of a mark. It is typically
found at the bottom of the page on which a mark is used.
Trademark Guidelines:
Improper use of AgeWorks trademarks can distort the individual educational
institution of AgeWorks and also lose its legal protection status.
The following are Trademark proper trademark usage guidelines:
- All logos trademarked by AgeWorks will be in the "AgeWorks
TradeMark Inventory" section of this webpage. Most, but not
all, AgeWorks trademarks will have the appropriate symbols placed
to the right of them.
- AgeWorks trademarks should never be used in the plural form.
- AgeWorks trademark symbols are to be used when the trademark
is used as an adjective.
- Partnerships that use the trademarks for commercial, educational,
or sponsorships must have written consent by AgeWorks by contacting.
If permission granted there should be proper attribution notice
which should be approved by also contacting legal@ageworks.com.
AgeWorks Trademark Inventory:
The following are trademarks that have been registered or in the
process of registering through the US patent office.
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