INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

TRADEMARKS COPYRIGHTS PATENTS

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Intellectual property rights are legal property rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, in the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.

YOU HAVE SEEN THEM ALL ,SO WHAT ARE THEY ?

TRADEMARK

A trademark or trade mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or the services to the consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities.
A trademark is designated by the following symbols:

(for an Unregistered Trademark, that is, a mark used to

promote or brand goods);

(for an Unregistered Servicemark, that is, a mark used to

promote or brand services); and

(for a Registered trademark)

A trademark is a type of Intellectual Property, and typically a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of these elements.There is also a range of non-conventional trademarks comprising marks which do not fall into these standard categories.
CITING EXAMPLES :

OF NAME

OF WORD

OF PHRASE

 OF SYMBOL

OF DESIGN

OF IMAGE

OF ALL COMBINATION

YOU HAVE SEEN IT.

AND IT IS NOT SOBO CENTRAL

COPYRIGHTS
Copyright gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which the work is said to enter the public domain. Copyright may apply to a wide range of creative, intellectual, scientific , artistic forms or works. It can include poems, theses, plays, other literary works, movies, dances, musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts.

Copyright does not cover ideas and information themselves, only the form or manner in which they are expressed.
For example, the copyright to a Mickey Mouse cartoon restricts others from making copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works based on Disney's particular mouse, but it does not prohibit the creation of other works about mice in general, so long as they are not copies or adaptations of Disney's mouse.

Mickey Mouse

& other mouse works

PATENTS
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention. The term patent usually refers to a right granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement.

EXAMPLE
ABC CORP. is software designing company. It has created a new tax evaluation software that updates with every new budget in any country It is advisable for the company to get registered under the Patent Acts for the software & its update process so that no other company or individual copies or misuses the software.

You know them but do you know them well enough ?

ANS: 5.

ANS: 5.

ANY QUESTIONS ?