Lecture Seven: Workshop

Utility Patents cover "inventions" -- a machine, an article of manufacture, a method of doing something, a chemical or DNA sequence or the method of its use, products of genetic engineering, or improvements to any of these things.Plant Patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers, and asexually reproduces, a new variety of certain kinds of plants. (Note that other kinds of plants, especially those altered by genetic engineering, may be protectable under utility patents).Design Patents cover the ornamental appearance of a useful device but not its function. For example, the body shape of a Porsche "Targa" automobile and the case of the IBM Selectric® typewriter were the subject of design patents.Trademarks cover the name or some other symbol (logo) which represent the source of a product or service. eg. The name, logo or the shape of the product.Copyrights protect works of authorship, composition, or artistry.Trade secret is the privacy of not reviling the contents of a product. eg. Coke-Cola and the ingredients that go into it.Domain names can be registered as TRADEMARKS.
Authority: Who made this site and do they have the authority to do so?Accuracy: Is the content of this site accurate and is there evidence to support it?Objectivity: What wasd the reason the author made this site? For personal, acidemic or finatual reasons?Details: The organisation of the site. Editing and how up to date it is.Value: Does the site offer the informationfor the topic that you are researching? Was the visit to this site worth it?

Looking at the two sites, www.theonion.com and www.martinlutherking.org it is clear that these sites are not ment to be taken seriously because they don't successfully cover the relivent topic that ensure true data.