Intellectual property rights

Intellectual property rights are patents, copyrights, industrial design rights, trademarks, plant variety protection, trade dress, geographical indications, and trade secrets in some jurisdictions. There are also specialized or derived sui generis exclusive rights varieties, such as chain design rights and supplementary protection certificates for pharmaceutical products and database rights. The term "industrial property" is sometimes used to denote a broad subset of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models, service marks, trade names and geographical indications.

The main types

Patents

A patent is a right granted by the government to the inventor or successor in title, entitling the holder to exclude others from the manufacture, use, sale, offer and limited period of the invention. in exchange for disclosure of the invention.

Copyright

Copyright gives the original creator exclusive rights.

Trademarks

A trademark is a recognizable sign, design, or expression that separates the products or services of a particular merchant from similar other merchants or services.

Industrial Design Rights

Industrial design rights protect the visual design of objects that are not just utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the shape, color or shape of the shape, configuration or composition, as well as the three-dimensional form of the combination of the model and color, containing an aesthetic value.

Commercial dress

A commercial dress is a legitimate artistic term that usually refers to the visual and aesthetic qualities of a product or its packaging, which indicates the source of the product to consumers.

Trade Secrets

A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, tool, model, or compilation of information that is not generally known or reasonably determinable, with which an enterprise can gain an economic advantage over its competitors and customers.

Intellectual property

What is Intellectual property?

It is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. Intellectual property includes two types of rights: industrial property rights (trademarks, patents, designations of origin, industrial designs and designs) and copyrights.

Purpose of Intellectual property?

Main purpose is to promote the creation of many intellectual goods. Law gives people and businesses property rights to information and intellectual products - usually for a limited time. It provides an economic incentive for their creation, as it allows people to benefit from the information and intellectual property they generate. It is expected that these economic incentives will stimulate innovation and promote technological progress in countries, which depends on the level of protection granted to innovators.

Industrial property

Industrial property is one of two subgroups of intellectual property, it has various forms, including patents for inventions, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, the layout of the integrated circuit, trade name and designation, Geographical indications and unfair competition models. In some cases, the aspects of intellectual creation, although present, are less clearly defined.