Protecting your designs?

My son works at a pizza place. The pizza place hired a company to make their coupons for their pizza, breadsticks, etc. The coupons were made and printed out with incorrect spelling of an item! They may want my son to design some coupons for them. He's a young, graphic artist. Still in school. How can he call the coupons he designs his own? Does he need to follow any steps to protect his design?



Thank youProtecting your designs?
no i guess he just draws and makes a cool logoProtecting your designs?
I believe there are different methods of protecting inventions and art work. A copyright may be used for drawings and written documents. A patent is used for processes or physical objects. A copyright may be much easier to get and cheaper. I would think not everything is worth going through the effort if it a design to be used for one company as they can trademark anything they consider a logo or exclusive design, I would say a patent attorney should be consulted and used as the place to start.Protecting your designs?
Trademark is a Federal Law.

Designs are copyrighted.

You want to trademark your brand-not design.

There is no need to register a trademark until someone infringes.

You should seach any names being used to verify you are not infringing on someone elses trademark.
should check google for patents and registrations

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