Attached Link: Copyright, Trademark, and Patent from the horse's mouth

'*there is no way an "average" person would be able to tell your "original" version from the "real" version*' I'm not meaning this as a smartass remark, though it may sound that way -- it's really what the legal IP laws say, in many mre legalese words -- but there is a definite way an average person would be able to tell the model from the real car.... You can get into a DeLorean automobile and drive away if you have the keys. You can't do that with a DeLorean poser model. The USPTM office *specifically states* in an example on the difference that you can make your own description of a patented device and sell it, even if the original blueprints or written descriptions are copyrighted.