Intellectual property rights

Intellectual property rights are legal rights that provide creators protection for their inventions, writings, symbols, names, and images. These rights include patents, copyrights, and trademarks, among others. Intellectual property rights are crucial in the fields of technology, science, literature, and art, as they encourage creativity and innovation by ensuring that creators can profit from their inventions.

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Intellectual property rights are divided into two main categories: Industrial property, which includes patents for inventions, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications, and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems, plays, films, musical works, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and architectural designs.

Patents[edit | edit source]

A patent is a right granted to an inventor that permits the inventor to exclude others from making, selling, or using the invention for a certain period of time. Patents are intended to encourage inventors to disclose their discoveries to the public in exchange for the promise of a limited monopoly.

Copyrights[edit | edit source]

Copyright is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and artistic works. Works covered by copyright range from books, music, paintings, sculpture, and films, to computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps, and technical drawings.

Trademarks[edit | edit source]

A trademark is a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one enterprise from those of other enterprises. Trademarks are protected by intellectual property rights.

Industrial Designs[edit | edit source]

An industrial design is the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article. The design may consist of three-dimensional features, such as the shape or surface of an article, or two-dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or color.

Geographical Indications[edit | edit source]

Geographical indications are signs used on goods that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities, reputation or characteristics that are essentially attributable to that place of origin.

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