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Intellectual Property

Overview
1.Meaning of Intellectual Property
2.Types of Intellectual property
3.Law governing Intellectual Property
4.Objectives of intellectual property law
5.Infringement, misappropriation, and enforcement
6.Conclusion
Intellectual Property (IP)
refers to the protection of
What is Intellectual creations of the mind, which
have both a moral and a
property? commercial value.
IP law typically grants the
author of an intellectual
creation exclusive rights for
exploiting and benefiting from
their creation
Types of Intellectual
Property
Patents
Copyright
Industrial design rights
Plant varieties
Trademarks
Trade dress
Trade secrets
Patents
Right granted to the owner of an invention that
prevents others from making, using, importing or
selling the invention without his permission. A
patentable invention can be a product or a process that
gives a new technical solution to a problem. It can also
be a new method of doing things, the composition of a
new product, or a technical improvement on how
certain objects work.
To boost entrepreneurship and startup

culture in India Prime Minister Narendra

Modi launched the ambitious Startup

India Movement. To boost innovation

culture in India, he also promised faster

patent registrations and quicker exits for

companies. He also stated that there

will be income tax exemption to

startups for the first three years.


Copyright Copyright is a law that gives you
ownership over the things you
create. Be it a painting, a
photograph, a poem or a novel, if
you created it, you own it and its
the copyright law itself that
assures that ownership. The
ownership that copyright law
grants comes with several rights
that you, as the owner, have
exclusively.
15 Those rights include
the right to reproduce the work,
to prepare derivative works, to
distribute copies, to perform the
work and to display the work
publicly
Industrial design rights
Industrial design rights are
defined as the part of the
intellectual property rights which
confers the rights of exclusivity to
the visual designs of objects which
are generally not popular
utilitarian. It safeguards the
appearance, style, design of the
industrial object such as spare
parts, textiles, furniture.
Plant varieties
Plant breeders' rights are a form of
intellectual property rights that allow
plant breeders to protect new varieties
of plants. Other forms of intellectual
property protection include patents,
trademarks and copyrights.
When plant breeders' rights are granted,
the breeder gets exclusive rights in
relation to propagating material of their
new plant variety.
.
Trademark
Trade dress
Trade secrets
WIPO - World Intellectual
property Organization
WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage
creative activity, to promote the protection of
intellectual property throughout the world".
WIPO currently has 189 member states,
administers 26 international treaties, and is
headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. WIPO
is a specialized agency of UN. India is an active
member of WIPO.
Objectives of intellectual property law
"

Financial incentive
Allow owners of intellectual property to
benefit from the property they have created.

Economic growth
The protection of intellectual property rights
is essential to maintaining economic growth.

Morality
Everyone has the right to the protection of the
moral and material interests resulting from
any scientific, literary or artistic production of
which he is the author.
Infringement
Violation of intellectual property
rights, called "infringement" with
respect to patents, copyright, and
trademarks, and "misappropriation"
with respect to trade secrets, may be
a breach of civil law or criminal law,
depending on the type of intellectual
property involved, jurisdiction, and
the nature of the action.
TYPES OF INFRINGEMENT
Patent infringement - caused by selling a patented invention without
permission from its holder.
Copyright infringement-reproducing or distributing, a work without
permission from the copyright holder. It is often called "piracy"
Trademark infringement- occurs when one party uses a trademark
that is identical to a trademark owned by another party.
Trade secret misappropriation - acquisition of a trade secret of
another by another person by improper means.
Conclusion
Your every correct
action will contribute
towards development of
your country
Create Yourself rather
than copying others
Be creative be You !!

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