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This conversation came up. Some one claims to have a patent on a style of calendar. Is such a thing possible? To me, there are only so many ways to create a calendar. Then you tweak any note taking areas.
The specific patent was having the dates in a column on the left. But I had one of these by a different company some 18 or 19 years ago.
Can anyone here clarify?
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Sorry, I'm not help at all but maybe a search of the patent office? I would think there would be something online for them? 
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wouldnt' a calendar be a copyright not a patent anyway? My understanding is unless you can handle all the legal expenses of challenging others that holding a patent isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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Not sure about this. I have heard things like this, like Franklin Covey's designs being copyrighted or something. There's one design I really like and I've been curious if it's theirs specifically.
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Hmmm this article 5 Things that Can't Be Copyrighted actually mentions things like the photos can be copyrighted but the calendar can't be. But I'm still not sure if the form of the caldendar can be copyrighted or not.
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yeah This article says of things that can NOT be copyrighted
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| •Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devises, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration Works that are "common property" and have no original authorship, for example standard calendars, tape measures and rules, height and weight charts, lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources |
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"Standard calendars" but formatting and style especially if unique can be copyrighted, like a font or the actual way it is formatted.
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Right. So for example, my planner is copyrighted meaning that you can't just copy it. But a calendar per se can't be copyrighted just someone's individual design of one. Even so a slight variation on that design would then become *your* design. Patented though? No.
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So, in effect, they were using the wrong term..lol
There would be copyright on the artistic elements that were put together, and any intellectual information you added to it. If it's a planner, and you have included suggestions for chores, or neat quotes. The compilation of those is copyrighted, but not so much the actual tables of weekly/monthly calendars itself.
But their claim was their table was patented as it was 'so unique'. I really wish I could find that old planner as it was almost identical. LOL
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Yes and I would say "show me the patent" because it's my understanding that patents are not that easy to get.
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