Note of Chapter 7: Intellectual property from exam perspective. (cursory notes)
Chapter 7: Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a category of property that includes tangible creation of human intellect.
a) Copy right and patent
- Copyright is the exclusive right to make copies, license, and works granted by law
- Some organization or a person holds the copyright on a piece of writing, music, etc. who have legal rights to publish, broadcast, or perform it while other must seek permission to use it.
- If any person uses the work aerated by other he/she is deemed to have committed the offence of infringement a civil violation.
- Other form of relief are profit infringer earned through infringement and the proceeds shall be paid to the author of the copyrights.
- Patent is official to the only person to make use or sell a product or an invention.
- In another words it is governmental grant to the inventor for his invention conferring on him exclusive right to use it for commercial purpose.
- Holder of the patent may assign his patent to another or grant license to others to manufacture goods on receipt of a consideration called royalty.
- Scientific theories are not patentable unless they are reduced to manufacturable entities.
- Gillian D. Brown and Sally Rice wrote about copyright and patent mentioning; how the interest/right occurs, what safeguard is accessible, and remedies are needed.
- Copyright can be arisen if original work is registered and published or literacy, artistic, musical, dramatic, etc.
Copyright is a kind of intellectual property interest. The interest or right can be automatically arisen or accrued by the law or statutory provisions.
b) Trademarks, domain name, and remedies for IP infringement
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