CHAPTER 1

COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS

Assess:
A. Intellectual Property Bags
Instructions: Prepare one bag for every five students in the class. Include in
each bag 4–5 everyday household items that have components that are
trademarked, copyrighted or patented. Ideas for objects: a small package of
facial tissues, a tube of toothpaste, a CD, a shoe, a magazine, a pen, a
packaged food item, and the like.
Intellectual Property Bags Sheet
Name: Gemma Tugom
Item Copyright Patent Trademark
Alcohol Green Cross, Inc. Gonzalo Co It Rubbing Alcohol
Book Maxine Lat Maxine Lat Fictional Book
Shoe Nike Inc. Nike USAF
Perfume Golden ABC Inc. Golden ABC Inc. OXYGEN POWER
Toothpaste Colgate-Palmolive Colgate-Palmolive 360
Company Company
B. Political Cartoon Analysis
Instructions: Given is a political cartoon. Examine it using the following
questions.
1. What do you see in the
cartoon? Make a list of the
significant things in the
cartoon. How are the
characters dressed?

Answer: There are two heroes

arguing. They have the same capes,
same on posture regarding with their
arms and same name.

2. What are the characters

are you saying to each other?

Answer: They seem like arguing on having

the same name. But the other one is defending that
his name has two words while the other hero has one
word on his name.

3. What is happening in the

 cartoon? What is copyright
infringement?

Answer: The two heroes are arguing

about copying one another’s
name.Copyright infringement is the use
or production of copyright-protected
material without the permission of the
copyright holder.

4. What is the cartoonist's

message?

Answer: That the other hero is not

copying the name of another ones
because his name has two words
and has different meaning from the
other one while the other one has
a one word on his name.
Therefore, there is no copyright
infringement in this cartoon.

5. Do you agree or disagree

with the cartoonist's
message? Explain your
answer.

Answer: I highly disagree with the

cartoonist. Only the owner has the
right to create a new version of a
certain work. You cannot claim
copyright to another's work, no
matter how much you change it,
unless you have the owner's
consent.
 C. The Origin of Patent Power
In 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the
founders adopted the following language without debate.
"The Congress shall have power…To promote the Progress of
useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to…and Inventors the
exclusive right to their
discoveries." United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8
In 1913, the Philippine legislature passed Act No. 2235, making the
United States' patent laws applicable in the Philippines. Act No. 3134,
entitled "An Act to Protect Intellectual Property," was passed in 1924, making
it the leading intellectual property law in effect until after Philippine
independence from the U.S. in 1945.
Questions:
1. What part of the Philippine Constitution is this? (5points)
Answer: Article III Bill of Rights

2. Why is this section important? How does it fit with the study of intellectual
property? (5 points)

Answer: The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the United States
Constitution. These amendments guarantee essential rights and civil
liberties, such as the right to free speech and the right to bear arms, as well
as reserving rights to the people and the states.

3. What does this section tell us about what the people who wrote
the Did the constitution think about inventors? (5points)

Answer: The Congress shall have power to promote the Progress of useful
Arts, by securing for limited Times to…and Inventors the exclusive right to
their discoveries

4. What are the three most important things to remember about

section? (5points)

Answer: 1. It required that the device be original.

2. It mandated it be tested for utility.
3. It imposed a standard penalty for infringement.

GEMMA TUGOM BIT- ELX 2B