> Well, I wasn't the original poster...
Oops. Sorry about the misattribution (I goofed, because the person I was
responding to was responding to you, and I made the leap).
> Don't know if you cover it in your FAQ, but what do you do with all of
> the new revisions? Do you have to resubmit new forms and pay new fees
> each time? Many FAQs are updated monthly.
My advice to clients is generally to re-register only substantial
revisions, whether they're substantial in one swoop, or cumulatively so.
The theory is that, if, say, you register V2.1.0, and V 2.1.1 is just an
update of that, anyone copying from 2.1.1 is copying material from 2.1.0,
which is registered. To the extent that you can make out a case of
infringement by showing similarity between the 2.1.0 version and the
infringing copy, you can claim infringement of the registered version.
When you make enough updates that someone can copy from, say V2.4.8 and
manage to do so without taking much of anything that was in the
registered V2.1.0 version, it's time to think about reregistering.
I'm Ccing the FAQ-maintainers list, because I assume that this is still
of general interest.
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