Your penis stops growing when you finish puberty. Exactly when that happens, though, varies from person to person. Everyone develops at a different pace. You may take longer than your friends or less time than them to finish puberty. But by 16, your body and its parts should be close to your adult size.
The patent laws do not distinguish a food simply because we eat it. Rather, the law would classify food as a composition of matter. At the United States Patent and Trademark Office, food recipes would probably fall under Patent Class 426: âFood or Edible Material.â. A new food can be patented as a composition of matter.
Copyright covers both published and unpublished works. Federal copyright law provides the owner of the copyright with the exclusive right to copy, distribute, perform, and make derivative works. Ideas cannot be copyrighted. Only the actual expression of your idea in a fixed form is protected by copyright law. If someone uses your exact idea for a research project on the Battle of Normandy, and she interviews the same subjects and takes pictures of the same landscape, but does not use your words or your pictures, you may or may not have legal redress, but not under copyright law.