Although it sounds of a malformed naive question, at times patent
applicants do want to copyright their patent. The patent application
may, for instance, include software code, prose, or particular
schematics that would seemingly be amenable to copyright protection.
Published works are no longer required to include any copyright notice, and the PTO has never indicated (AFAIK) that submission without the copyright notice constitutes a waiver or abandonment of copyright protections. However, the failure to include a (c) notice could potentially be relevant to fair-use analysis.
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