Forms of Intellectual Property

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• FORMS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• These are rights governed by a statute that gives people the right to prevent others from exploiting or abusing their intellectual creations.

• is identified

• Contains

• Intangible Landscape

• Copyrights

• Trade Marks

• Looks into the traditional forms of IP

• Looks at the comparatively lesser known IP

• also

• is responsible

• consider

• Strategic objectives

• The Degree of protection

• Type of protection 

• Designed to

• Protect the rights of a creator of literary and artistic works, computer programs and databases.

• Typically is enforced to prevent copying, plagiarism, and misuse of work.

• also

• consider

• Granting

• Works Protected

• International Protection

• Registration

• Used in the marketing of a company's products. 

• Patents

• Provide protection for the goodwill and reputation of a company in its products and services.

• Designed to

• also

• Registration

• * Must be distinctive         *Must not be descriptive of the goods                       *Must not be capable of deception

• Designed to

• Legal title granted to an applicant for protection of an invention.

• The title granted provides the owner with a monopoly on exploitation making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing.

• also

• Requirements

• The invention must be novel

• It must involve an inventive step

• It must be capable of industrial application

• By: Cristian Ladino  Group: 212032_101Date: Marzo 2020  

• Conventions and treaties  

• most countries today also have signed up to international agreements and treaties on the protection of IP

• International Organization

• World Trade Organisation (WTO)

• European Patent Convention (EPC)

• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

• For some companies, ‘know-how’ and ‘trade secrets’ can be just as valuable a piece of IP as a patented technology.

• Also

• Designed to

• Design Rights

• the ‘individual character’ of a design

• with the following three requirements

• It must be novel

• There are obvious downsides  

• Exist international agreement  

• it must comply  

• It must have ‘individual character’

• must have industrial application

• the Community Design system

• the Hague Agreement.

• to taking this approach, in that the know-how could be anticipated by someone else who independently develops the same process.