Can anyone tell me what is the difference betweencopyright,a patent and a registered trademark? thanks!?
Answers: For the UK try the details on the patent office website - http://www.ipo.gov.uk/
Basically if you produce something like an artwork, you automatically have copyright and can require payment from other people for their use of it or impose conditions on their use.
A trade mark is a form of identification (not necessarily a logo) associated with a particular product or service and a particular supplier or provider. This has to be registered and must not be capable of being confused with a similar mark.
There are both civil and criminal penalties available under the Trade Marks Act 1994 and local councils have a duty to enforce the criminal provisions.
A patent is a declaration that you have found/invented/produced some new device or method of doing something and gives you rights over the use of that idea.
You can also register a design
most dictionaries and even wikipedia can
www.wikipedia.com
You can copyright the printed or written words, but not the idea, for the duration of copyright - now 75 years , I think.
You have to apply for and pay for a patent, which has to be very specific.
A registered trademark is a logo. The word 'Yahoo!' is a official trademark of a search engine.
If anyone used unofficially a closely resembled symbol, (removing the exclamation mark for example), or the trademark itself they can be persecuted for theft.
A patent is, (used usually for an invention), what you have to apply for if you do not want your invention for example to be used by anyone else or any part of it.
You have to be specific as to what it is you are patenting and you have to pay.
This can be tricky because you cannot patent some thing like vegetable oil for example even if you found a new use for it.
But if your new invention is a box and it requires you to put veg oil in it to make it fly, you can patent the box and the idea but not the veg oil.
Unless of course you came up with an entirely new veg oil.
you can pay a copyright fee, to use it and sell it, like if I wanted to Sing a Song somebody else has written, and I wanted to put it on CD, I could use it for personal use but I couldn't sell it. If I asked the writers permission, and I added the details to the CD info, or i payed the Copyright fee, then I could put it on CD and sell it! With Trademark, you can't use it AT ALL. Patent is similar to a Trade mark, but you put a Patent on it, and nobody else can use it without your permission.
hope This Helps!
How to use log to fine wdv depreciation rate?
Use of scietific calculator not allowed.formula is
r=1-(s/c)^n
where on earth,
r=depreciation rate,
s=scrap amount,
c=purchase amount,
n=the expected useful natural life of assets
Answers: I'll make it even simpler for you. Most companies do not include a fragment value when setting up depreciation rates.
So shift with this:
(Cost)/(# of months to depreciate)
So if you own equipment costing $8400, with a adjectives life of 7 years, after your depreciation rate would be $100 per month.
Those formulas are ugly, use this approach, and it become easy.
Good luck!
What is the current price of a barrel of oil?
Answers: arm and a leg
Average Jan 2008 price is $94.08 for West Texas Intermediate
WTI is one of many grades. The Texas stuff, Saudi stuff and Venezuellan stuff all have different compositions that take different amounts of work to refine. They cost different amounts.
Today WTI is selling for $89.85 per barrel.
The price on the world commodities market of one barrel of oil is $86.99. That is as of 3 pm eastern time today