Preserving Patent and Trade Secret Rights for Motion-Picture Special Effects

This article describes some of the legal issues surrounding the protection of inventions created in the course of motion-picture production. Its purpose is to provide readers with a basic understanding of patent and trade-secret rights, and to explain how these two sources of intellectual property rights apply within the specialized area of special effects development for motion pictures.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1995-08

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J17684