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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Typefaces, fonts, and their glyphs raise intellectual property considerations in copyright, trademark, design patent and related laws. The copyright status of a typeface – and any font file that describes it digitally – varies between jurisdictions. In the United States, typefaces, the abstract form of the design – meaning the shapes that are measured and recorded digitally within the typeface's corresponding font file – is unprotectable under U.S. copyright law.However, the same abstract design is protectable by other means in the United States, such as design patent (indeed, the very first US design patent was for a typeface), and by similar industrial design protections in other countries, including the UK, Germany and France. Further, the form in which that typeface is often reproduced, a computer font file, is registrable for copyright in the United States (since 1992). Other forms of protection are also applicable: the typeface's trade name may be registrable as a Trademark. (And the trademark would apply, simultaneously, to the trade name of the thing that actually changes hands when the typeface is bought, sold, licensed, or in any way redistributed – that is, the digital font file within which the measurements of the typeface are recorded as data.)"@en }

• Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces abstract "Typefaces, fonts, and their glyphs raise intellectual property considerations in copyright, trademark, design patent and related laws. The copyright status of a typeface – and any font file that describes it digitally – varies between jurisdictions. In the United States, typefaces, the abstract form of the design – meaning the shapes that are measured and recorded digitally within the typeface's corresponding font file – is unprotectable under U.S. copyright law.However, the same abstract design is protectable by other means in the United States, such as design patent (indeed, the very first US design patent was for a typeface), and by similar industrial design protections in other countries, including the UK, Germany and France. Further, the form in which that typeface is often reproduced, a computer font file, is registrable for copyright in the United States (since 1992). Other forms of protection are also applicable: the typeface's trade name may be registrable as a Trademark. (And the trademark would apply, simultaneously, to the trade name of the thing that actually changes hands when the typeface is bought, sold, licensed, or in any way redistributed – that is, the digital font file within which the measurements of the typeface are recorded as data.)".