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Intellectual Property - Coggle Diagram
Intellectual Property
What is Intellectual Property?
Names of Brands & Products
Inventions
Design or look of your products
Things you have written, make or produce
Copyright, patents, deisgns and trademarks are all types of intellectual property protection. Some types are automatic and others you have to apply for.
What Counts as Intellectual Property ?
Is something unique that you physically create. An idea alone is not intellectual property. For example, an idea for a book doesn't count as IP, but the words you've written do.
Owning Intellectual Property
Created it (and it meets the requirements for copyright, a patent or a design
Bought intellectual property rights from the creator or a previous owner
Have a brand that could be a trademark, e.q a well know product name
You usually won't own the IP for something you created as part of your work while you were employed by someone else
Intellectual Property Can:
Have more than one owner
Belong to people or business
Be sold or transferred
Using more than one type of protection:
Register the name and logo as a trademark
Protect a product's unique shape as a registered design
Patent a completely new working part
Use Copyright to protect drawings of the product