Legal Question in Intellectual Property in New Jersey

Re: Copyright of Ideas

You automatically have copyrights to your work, once you have written it up. But you would need to trademark the acronym and possibly patent the method you have created. Let me know if you want help with this work.

Re: Copyright of Ideas

Ideas, concepts, and processes cannot be copyrighted. Those items are potentially patentable.

If you are looking to protect an acronym, the type of intellectual property protection is a trademark. Trademark rights arise through actual use of the mark in commerce, not by registration, however federal registration of a trademark provides the trademark owner with significantly more rights to protect the mark.

If you using the acronym in commerce, you are free to use the "TM" symbol after the mark to indicate that you are claiming trademark rights in the acronym, but the designation is not required.

My firm handles trademark registrations, so we'd be happy to discuss your options with you.

Re: Copyright of Ideas

You want to register a trademark - Federal if you will use the mark in more than one state.