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IT213-Issues and Professional
Practices in IT

Chapters 5 to 6 – Activities
By:
Neri Marie B. Aurelio
BSIT-2A

To:
DR. RENANTE A. DIAMANTE
Assistant Prof. 2

1st Semester/S.Y. 2021-2022

 Chapter 5
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Activity 1

1. Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as

inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and
images used in commerce.
2. Four Types of IP
Copyrights
Patents
Trademarks
Trade Secrets
 Copyrights protect writing, pictures, music, art, and other forms of
intellectual works. What this means for you is that if you wrote
something, or created a piece of work that you don’t want people to
reuse without your permission, you have the right to copyright that
work. Now, if people want to use, reuse, or re purpose your work,
they must first contact you to use it, attribute you as the owner, and
use it for purposes you deem appropriate.
 The list of things that can patented is fairly lengthy and open to
interpretation but it covers anyone who “invents or discovers any new
and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter,
or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent,”.
 A Trademark is a “word, phrase, symbol, or design, or a combination
thereof, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of
one party from those of others. ” For instance, if your company name,
a logo, or your company tagline can me trademarked. The trademark
serves as a brand identifier for your business or your products.
Images, slogans, and colors can all be trademarked.
 Generally, any piece of confidential corporate information which gives
any business a competitive advantage can be considered a trade
secret. For instance, Coca-Cola’s secret formula could be considered
a trade secret. Now, if I created a soda company and produced
 identical soda to Coca-Cola, this would be an infringement of Coke’s
trade secret.
3.Domain names let an internet user visit a specific website. ... A domain
name is registered so that there is an internet address. A trademark is
registered to identify a product or service. A business name is registered to
identify a business that wishes to trade other than with its own name
example. Trademarks are registered only for specific goods and services;
domain names are not. So, for example, only one person in the world can
own delta.com, even though many companies own a trademark registration
for the word DELTA for various goods and services.
4. The term cybersquatting refers to the unauthorized registration and use
of Internet domain names that are identical or similar to trademarks, service
marks, company names, or personal names. Example: A cybersquatter
could buy Heinz.com if the company hadn't created a website yet, looking
to sell the domain to Heinz at a later date for profit, or use the domain
name to attract traffic and generate money through advertising.
5. Open-source software is computer software that is released under a
license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study,
change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for
any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative
public manner. Yes, Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software
that is both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely
licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the
source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily
improve the design of the software.
6. A government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set
period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or
selling an invention. Patents prevent others from making or selling an
invention, but trademarks protect the words, phrases, symbols, logos, or
other devices used to identify the source of goods or services from usage
by other competitors.
7. 5.2
 Yes
 Yes, because it’s against to the law copyright is prohibited.
8. Open Source Software is software of which the source code is publicly
available. Its copyright holder provides people the rights to study, modify,
and (re)distribute the code to anyone.