Intellectual Property
Trademark
Copyright
Patent
Registered Design
a combination of letters, words, sounds or designs that distinguishes one company’s goods or services from those of others in the marketplace.
There are different types such as smell, logo, word and sound
exclusive legal right to produce, reproduce, publish or perform an original literary, artistic, dramatic or musical work.
Exclusive rights
Literary Works
Musical Notation
Graphic Works
Sound Recordings
Photographs
Applies to newly developed technology as well as to improvements on products or processes. They provide a time-limited, legally protected, exclusive right to make, use and sell an invention.
Criteria for Inventions to be patentable
New
Inventive Step
Industrial Application
The design must be new. It must not be the same as another design anywhere in the world.
The design must be distinctive. it must not be substantially similar to another design.
Allows the protection of the external appearance of the article
