United States and international copyright law requires us to seek certain information from you prior to undertaking the filing of any patent application(s) on your behalf. Please carefully review the following requests for information. Please compile your written answers to these questions and forward them to the attention of your Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, LLC copyright attorney either prior to your initial consultation or at another mutually agreed-upon time. You should review and supplement your answers to these questions on an ongoing basis throughout the entire patent process. You should keep your attorney apprised, in writing, of any changes in your answers to these questions, and of any developments and new information which may bear upon the accuracy of the information contained therein.
We recognize and appreciate that answering these questions will take some time and thought. It has been our experience, however, that clients who do take the time to complete this Questionnaire have better outcomes at significantly lower costs.
Please answer thoroughly, accurately, and in writing the following questions:
1. Please provide your name, address, phone numbers, email address, and date of birth.
2. Please provide the title of the work.
3. Please provide any alternate titles of the work.
4. Please state the nature of the work (text, photographs, pen and ink drawings, or the like).
5. Please state what pre-existing materials were incorporated into the work.
6. Please describe your contribution to the work.
7. Please state whether others contributed to the creation of the work in any way. Please identify these persons without regard to either the nature, magnitude, or significance of their contribution. Please provide all identifying information for such other contributors. Additionally, please describe their contributions to the work.
8. Please give the specific dates of all printed publications, sales, offers for sale, and public display and/or use of the subject matter of your copyright, whether by you or by any other individual or entity, whether in this or in any foreign country. If copies of such materials are available to you, please provide them to us with your answers.
9. Please state whether this work has been previously registered for copyright. If so, please provide a copy of all prior registrations.
10. Please state whether you intend to pursue one or more foreign copyright applications for your invention.
11. Please state whether you conceived, designed, developed, and/or reduced your materials to tangible form while at work.
12. Please state whether your employer contributed in any manner at all to the development of this work.
13. Please state whether materials contained in your copyright work came from your place of work.
14. Please state whether you have signed any documents, agreements, or statements with your employer which restrict in any manner your use or ownership of copyright materials developed while in its employ, or which restrict in any manner your ability to disclose materials which are claimed to be trade secrets of your employer. If copies of such documents are available to you, please provide them to us with your answers.
15. Please state whether governmental funds were used to develop this work. If so, please identify the governing agency, relevant project identification information, the sponsoring organization or employer, and any other relevant information. Please state whether you believe the government to have an interest in any copyright which may result from this work. If copies of such documents are available to you, please provide them to us with your answers.
16. Please state whether private or other non-governmental funds were used to develop this work. If so, please identify any relevant governing body, relevant project identification information, the sponsoring organization or employer, and any other relevant information. Please state whether you believe the private or non-governmental body to have an interest in any copyright which may result from this work. If copies of such documents are available to you, please provide them to us with your answers.
17. Please state whether you are under any duty, by written contract or otherwise, to assign, license, convey, or transfer any coypright, or any right you might possess in any copyright, covering this work to any other person, governmental agency, or business concern. Please identify all such duties and relevant assignees, licensees, conveyees, or transferees, giving name, address, and phone number for each. If copies of written documents evidencing such duties are available to you, please provide them to us with your answers for review.
18. Are you aware of any other information, without limitation, which was not specifically sought in this Questionnaire, but which would, or might, bear upon copyright of this work? If so, please detail the information and provide copies of any documents containing this information. If copies are not available to you, please provide information of sufficient detail to enable us to locate, review, and obtain a copy of the document or information.
19. Do you have any questions, observations, or concerns regarding your rights in this work, the documentation process, copyright laws or regulations, the copyright process, or any other related matter which you wish your copyright attorney to consider or answer? If so, please list such matters for us and we will promptly consider them and respond to you.
Thank you for your time in answering these questions! We look forward to reviewing your answers with you.