FORMS OF INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY (Juan Ferney Pineda Betancur, Septiembre 2019, 212032_93)

Are rights governed by statute that provide individuals with a right
to prevent others from exploiting or abusing their intellectual creations

PATENTS

Legal title granted to an applicant for protection of an invention. It is a registerable form of IP

Granted for a limited period by the patent office, acting as an instrument of the government in the country in which the patent is applied for

COPYRIGHT

Is a form of IP designed to protect the rights of a creator of literary and artistic works, computer programs and databases

Allows the creators to control the use and exploitation of their works, and derivative works thereof, and covers the copying, adapting, publishing, performing and broadcasting of such
works

TRADE MARKS

Is the symbol by which the goods of a particular manufacturer or trader can be identified and distinguished from the goods of others

The trade mark, in which a business wants to create value and become identified by in the market, can be a word, a signature, a monogram, a picture or symbol, a logo or a combination.

DESIGN RIGHTS

The registered design right can be as valuable as a patent right in certain product fields and is much stronger than the unregistered design right, with several clear benefits

Design right protection is an additional form

SECRET KNOW-HOW

Usually relates to a technology process or manufacturing method, which is notpatented either because it does not satisfy the criteria for patentability, or because a decision is made not to patent it, since in order to apply for a patent, full details of the process must be disclose

may be exploited solely by the company that is using it