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| Certification Mark | Used to certify regional or other geographic origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other characteristics of someone's goods or services, or that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization. |
| Collective Mark | A mark which indicates membership in a union, an association, or other organization. |
| Copyright | Legal protection that gives the author of a work control over how that work is used. |
| Cyber squatting | The act of registering, selling, or using an Internet domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark of someone else. |
| Drawing Page | Part of the trademark application process where a black and white drawing of the mark is included. |
| Fair Use Rule | Describes when and how much of a copyrighted work may be copied or used in another work. |
| Hacking | Gaining unauthorized access to computer systems for the purpose of stealing and corrupting data. |
| Intellectual property | The right an individual or group of individuals has in an idea. |
| Registered copyright | The author has registered the piece with the U. S. Copyright Office. |
| Registered trademark | A company can register a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. |
| Service mark | Any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or intended be used, in commerce, to identify and distinguish the services of one provider from services provided by others, and to indicate the source of the services. |
| Specimen Page | Part of the trademark application process where a real example of how the mark is used in commerce is included. |
| Trademark | A distinctive word, phrase, logo, graphic symbol, slogan or anything used to identify goods or services and distinguishes them in the marketplace. |
| Unregistered copyright | An author does not have to do anything to copyright a work. |
| Unregistered trademark | A company does not have to do anything to have trademark protection. |