DIFFERENT TYPES OF IP

NAME MEANING ESSENTIALS TERM OF REMEDIES ON

PROTECTION INFRINGEMENT

1. COPYRIGHT Copyright refers 1.That which is Protection 1.Civil

to the legal to be protected for literary remedies.
right of the must be a work or musical or
owner of of authorship. artistic works 2.Criminal
intellectual is granted remedies.
property. This 2.It must be for a period
original. 3.Border
means that the which
enforcement.
original creators extends
3.It must be
of products and throughout
fixed in a
anyone they the lifetime
tangible
give of the author
medium of
authorization to and then 60
expression.
are the only years from
ones with the the year in
exclusive right which the
to reproduce author died.
the work.
2. TRADEMARKS A trademark is a 1.A trademark The 1.Monetary
type of must be a mark registration compensation.
intellectual which includes a of the
property device, heading, trademark is 2.Court-
consisting of a brand, etc. valid for a ordered
recognizable period of 10 injunction.
sign, design, or 2.It should be years and
easy to speak 3.Court-
expression renewable
 which identifies and spell. every 10 ordered
products or years on forfeiture or
services of a 3.It should be payment of destruction of
particular easy to additional the infringing
source from remember. fees. goods.
those of others.
4.It should not 4.Payment of
be too lengthy plaintiff's
and attorneys' fees.
complicated.

5.It must be
distinctive.
3. PATENTS A patent is a 1.Patentable Patent 1.An injunction
government- subject matter. protection is issued by a
issued property granted for a court.
right given to an 2.Novelty. limited
inventor to period, 2.Monetary
3.Inventive step Damages.
exclude others generally 20
or Non-
from making, years from
Obviousness. 3.Attorney's
selling or using the filing
Fees.
their invention 4.Capable of date of the
for a set period Industrial application. 4.Seizure,
of time. Application. Destruction
and/or
Impoundment
of the infringing
goods.
4. INDUSTRIAL An industrial 1.Design 10 years of 1.Injunctions.
DESIGN design consists must be protection
of the nonobvious. and can 2.Damages.
creation of a be renewed
2.Associate 3.Suspension of
shape, once for
with shape, Custom.
configuration or 5 years
composition of pattern, . 4.Requesting
pattern ornamentation,
Authorities to
or colour, or or
proceed
configuration
 combination of of any product. with criminal
pattern prosecution
and colour in 3.Suffice the .
three- novelty and
dimensional originality.
form
4.Be non-
containing
contrary.
aesthetic
value. An
industrial
design can be a
two- or
three-
dimensional
pattern used to
produce
a product,
industrial
commodity
5. TRADE A trade secret is 1.The A Trade 1.Damages,
SECRETS confidential Information is Secret can Injunction
proprietary Secret. be protected and return of
knowledge that for confidential
is not 2.The unlimited information.
generally Information period of
known or Confers a time 2.Criminal
reasonably competitive breach of
ascertainable by advantage. trust, theft or
others that give cheating
3.The may be
you
information is applicable
and your
subject to
business a
reasonable
competitive and
efforts to keep
economic
its secret.
advantage.