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IPrights-Summary-Mancunium Intellectual Property Limited
IPrights-Summary-Mancunium Intellectual Property Limited
IPrights-Summary-Mancunium Intellectual Property Limited
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Patents
• Protect Inventions. Granted as an exclusive right to an inventor in exchange of full
disclosure.
• Range of subject matter that can be protected is broad and includes software
implemented inventions, manufacturing methods and inventive and non-obvious
improvements of known items.
• To get a Patent an application must be submitted at the relevant Patent / Intellectual
Property Office. The application should include a request for a Patent, including a
clear, sufficient and unambiguous description as to what the invention is, how it is
made, etc and the problem it solves.
• Criteria: The invention must possess Novelty; Inventive step and Industrial
Applicability. And:- must not be excluded subject matter(computer programs,
business methods, methods of diagnostics on the human / animal body, etc). There
are some exceptions to these exclusions.
• It can take anywhere between 2- 3.5 years for the Application to grant.
• Protection is Jurisdictional, so generally a UK granted Patent cannot be enforced in
the US, unless there is a valid US equivalent.
• Term: In the UK, 20 years from priority, after which the material reverts to the public
domain, free for anyone to use, even for commercial purposes.
Trade Marks
Copyright protects literal, musical and artistic works (not an exhaustive list).
It gives the owner a number of rights including the right to stop or prevent
reproduction of their work into another medium without the owners consent. It also
gives the owner other rights known as 'moral rights', among them the right to be
recognised as the author or creator of a work.
• literary works such as books, computer code, newspaper articles, song lyrics
and some types of databases.
• dramatic works, including works of dance or mime
• musical works
• artistic works, including diagrams, paintings, photographs,logos, maps,
sculptures, engravings, architecture, technical drawings.
• typographical arrangements, film or sound recordings and broadcasts
The work must be “fixed”, not arbitrary, so for example, while you may have
some difficulty protecting the abstract idea of a certain military board game,
the actual embodiment of the game may benefit from copyright protection.
• A registered design is a legal right which protects the overall visual appearance of a
product. The products is required to have an unique appearance by virtue of one of its
features.
• It is possible to register the appearance of whole or part of a product resulting from
features of:
(I) lines , (ii) contours (iii) colours (iv) shape (v) texture (vi) materials (vii)
ornamentation
A product can include the packaging, get up, graphic symbols, typographic
type faces and visible parts. It is also possible to register a design showing the
ornamentation alone, for example a diamond ring.
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