{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-ts","path":"/blog-bite-how-can-chefs-and-others-in-the-food-industry-protect-their-culinary-creations-and-food-designs-or-arrangements-from-being-copied-for-commercial-gain/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"Clausehound Blog","author":"Joshua Koudys"}},"markdownRemark":{"id":"adc9e95a-c828-587a-bdd7-d6911af692e0","excerpt":"This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com discusses an ever-increasing legal issue in the food industry: whether chefs and others in the food industry…","html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/trademark/504242/eat-your-art-out-intellectual-property-protection-for-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com</a> discusses an ever-increasing legal issue in the food industry: whether chefs and others in the food industry can use legal means to prevent others from copying their, often iconic, food designs and arrangements for commercial gain. </p>\n<p>The author notes that, for instance, copyright law can protect a chef’s culinary creation as an original, creative expression, but only if it has highly creative features separable from its features as a useful article. Other, but perhaps more difficult, means of legally protecting culinary creations include patent law, trade secret, and intellectual property law.</p>\n<p>For the drafters of an intellectual property license or transfer agreement, this is a good read for thinking about the nature of intellectual property that may need to be captured and inventoried for transfer, as well as of some of the related complexities.</p>","frontmatter":{"title":"Blog Bite: How can chefs and others in the food industry protect their culinary creations and food designs or arrangements from being copied for commercial gain?","date":"June 27, 2016","description":"This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com discusses an ever-increasing legal issue in the food industry.","author":{"id":"alina@clausehound.com","first":"Alina","last":null,"bio":null,"image":null},"tags":["Intellectual Property","Start-up","Services","Blog Bites","Mondaq","USA"]}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"/blog-bite-how-can-chefs-and-others-in-the-food-industry-protect-their-culinary-creations-and-food-designs-or-arrangements-from-being-copied-for-commercial-gain/","previous":{"fields":{"slug":"/events-startup-here-toronto-cafe-launch/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"EVENTS: StartUp HERE Toronto Cafe Launch","tags":["Events","Rajah"],"author":{"id":"rajah@cobaltcounsel.com","first":"Rajah","last":"Lehal"}}},"next":{"fields":{"slug":"/software-developmentmaster-services-agreements-part-ii-fees-deposits-refunds-and-good-faith/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"Software Development/Master Services Agreements Part II:  Fees, Deposits, Refunds, and Good Faith","tags":["Commercial Activities","Master Services Agreement","Software Development","Rajah"],"author":{"id":"rajah@cobaltcounsel.com","first":"Rajah","last":"Lehal"}}}}}}