EOC Week 10: Robert Kearns

Hollywood did a very good job at changing the entire emotional setting of the movie. Robert Kearns in the movie was shy almost and was all about his gadgets and wanted his kids to help him and learn what he knows. But in real life he was a miserable man and he lost everything because of this case. He spent around two decades on this case worked himself old to get thirty million dollars and still be lonely and old . he died of cancer in 2005 at the age of 77.

EOC Week 9:First Amendment and the News

i feel like the masque should not be built by ground zero in New York. i understand that it is a religious issue and they have the rights to. but it is just not right to build it so close. september 11 was only 9 years ago. that was not long ago it is still fresh in peoples minds and having this center so close is just not right. they say they are building it to bring people together, and they have already started out in a bad way. if they wanted to bring people in the community together they should have put it somewhere else and started out by going out into the public to see how everyone feels about having it in their community instead of just assuming that it will be okay to build this masque.

EOC Week 8: Legal Questions

1. If I lose inspiration and go online and use someone else’s design, more than I intended to. Will I be safe from a lawsuit if I changed it enough so it isn’t exactly the same? What recourse do I have if the roles are reversed, if my work is the work being stolen?
2. If I’m asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Can I use the skills that I developed in the company to earn money through free lance work?
3. As a designer working for an employer. Can part of a design from that company be considered a trade secret that I’m prohibited from using any work that was not solicited from within the firm?
4. If I come up with an original idea during employment with a company, who owns the rights to it, myself or the company? Is there any way I can make it my own to sell to others?
5. How much do you charge to read a contract and advise/interpret it for me?
6. What if a non-compete or non-disclosure clause in a contract is disguised and I don’t know what it is really talking about, how can I be aware of that before I sign the document?
7. If I have a series of designs that I have developed, is it better to copyright each one individual or should I do it as a whole?
8. If my company gave me stricted guidelines to go by for an advertisement for their company and I didn’t know it was taken from their competitor can the competitor sew me personally or would they go after the company?
9. What rights do I retain when using the companies software?
10. If I rough out a design on school/company software but finish on my own professional software at what point does it become a creation and what are my rights?

EOC Week 6: Illicit. What do you think?

Illicit drugs, purses, shoes, watches, jewelry, and even humans are a huge problem within not just our country but our entire world. People all over have made not billions but trillions of dollars producing and selling these items.



Coming out of Cuba, Africa, Panama, and other places across the world they make fake pharmaceutical drugs that they distribute to people all over the world. They put it on the internet for a discounted price and sell it as that brand. They make them by adding different components that are not even in the real drug, and they don’t put any of the real components of the real drug in their fakes. They use glue to make it stick together, they put glaze in it so its shinny and they use the dye that they use for street paint to dye the pill the color of their choice. The drugs that have come out of not just this country but others too, have not only made people sick from taking them, but have actually killed people. The makers do not care what happened to the people that have bought them, all they want is the money they is being given to them so they can support their families.

Purses mainly coming out of China produce jobs, food on the table, and money for the people that are having a hard time finding a job, which is everywhere because China is over populated. They have factories that are filled with people just pumping out purse after purse. They are given the fabric and a sewing machine and are told to make as many as they can out of what they give them. To ship the fabric safer they wait to print the logo on the fabric until they get it to where they are making it. They have they metal stamps that they get shipped separately and this simple process makes the purses quadruple in price, which is ridiculous. They make them so fast that they have nowhere to store them. They get mass orders and ship them all over the world, like in America, Italy, Greece, Mexico and many more other places.



Although we think those fake sunglasses, purses, shoes and other fashion wear are harmless to buy, there have been many killings over this and they have also started smuggling other illegal drugs with them. Once they start doing that there is no reason why they can’t throw in a few people to help make the products or worse drug women up with heroin and sell them to other countries for human sex trafficking which is something young women like myself fear.

EOC Week 4: 10 Most Meaningful Patent Terms

10 of the most meaningful patent terms
Patent
Prior Art
Design Around
Design Patents
Blocking Patent
Allowance
Amendment of Patent Application
Internet Patent
Issue Fees
Patent Examiners

EOC Week 3: Jeopardy

Building a Jeopardy game for homework is a good way to learn the material that the teacher is trying to provide to you. In the process of building and putting together this game, I was instructed to go through one hundred and ten pages of definitions to get the answers to my questions. I have to pick four different topics to tell you the answers to. It starts with one hundred dollars being the easiest description going down the line to five hundred dollars being the hardest description. So far I have patents, fees, claims, and random which I have to change, I just haven’t found anything better yet. During this process I have learned some of the definitions of the words that I am sure I will be using more of in the next few years.
If you are not familiar with the game show on TV I will explain it for you. On TV they usually have three players that are competing but in my class we will have a few different teams that have multiple players on one team. So in class the creator of the game gets up in front of the class and reads the answers as they are picked by the players. If they answer right they receive the point and move on or if they don’t answer right one of the other teams has a chance to answer the question to receive the points. Whoever has the most points at the end wins. It’s a fun game that is also educational.

Here are a couple examples of what I have put together.
Answer: An application may be changed in response to an initial rejection by the USPTO.
Question: What is an Amendment?
Answer: Fees that must be paid to file a patent form with the USPTO.
Question: Application filling fee.

ECO Week 2: What do you think of Lawyers?

Lawyers are intense people and most are intimidating. Throughout my life my father owning his own business has come across many lawyers and even judges that have become part of our family because we know them so well. I hear people say that they hate lawyers and I can see why even though I don’t feel the same way. Yea, they cost a lot of money and they know that you need them so they can do that, but if you have a good lawyer it will be plenty worth the pay.
My sister is in law school right now and dealing with her sometimes can be a pain. She is very good at making her argument and she never lets me have the last say. It’s really a drag when they are in your family and they like to argue.
The only time I have tried to deal with a lawyer was when I was sixteen years old. I was driving on the I-15 going north and I got pulled over for speeding and I crossed the white line or something like that. So needless to say the cop gave me a ticket. When the cop came back to the car to give me the ticket I was in tears, he said it’s just a ticket and I said yea but I am terrified to tell my dad that I got my first ticket so fast. So I thought I would be slick and go to one of those lawyers that tell you that they take care of it and the ticket gets reduced to a parking ticket. I think it was the day before my seventeenth birthday was when the lawyer sent some kind of thank you for choosing them. Well my dad opened my mail because he saw that it was from a lawyer to me and he wondered why, just like any parent would. Well, I got in big trouble and I have to call and cancel everything with them. It sucked. So after that I stuck with my dad’s friends to help me out with all my other tickets that I have received.

Voice

Hello.
My name is Christina Cassaro; I am a Graphic Designer and a Photographer. Design interests me because it is a way to express myself without having to stand up and say anything. And! I love that. Putting my name onto something beautiful that hopefully the WORLD will see makes me successful because I will want to keep producing what make me feel the happiest, although it maybe not be the easiest.
Photography is something I like to also do for fun and in my personal life. In spite of the fact that I also market that as part of my profession to show others what I have seen, and where I have been.
I am designing and working my way through life doing something that I find very interesting. I have worked hard to achieve my goals in life and I will keep working, designing, capturing moments in life, and exploring. Every day that I work on a project I learn something new or gain new tools and knowledge to succeed. When learning, I put that knowledge toward my interests to try to make something that no one has done before, which is very hard to do. I try to catch people’s attention by being risky, not knowing how the people are going to react is very exciting for me.
My goal is to leave the place that I am living now, which is Las Vegas, and move to Los Angeles where I can have more opportunities to become a Graphic Designer, to be a part of a company that is very successful only to branch off and make my own company.