- A patent is a set of exclusive rights
granted by a state to a patentee for a fixed period of time in exchange
for a disclosure of an invention.
- The procedure for granting patents,
the requirements placed on the patentee and the extent of the exclusive
rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and
international agreements.
- The term "patent" usually refers to a
right granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful
process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or
any new and useful improvement thereof.
- A patent is obtained by filing a
written application at the relevant patent office. The application
contains a description of how to make and use the invention and, under
some legislations, if not self evident, the usefulness of the invention.
The patent application may or must also comprise "claims". Claims define
the invention and embodiments for which that the applicant wants patent
rights to.
- Depending on the technical complexity
of the subject, patent agents charge $600-$1,400 to prepare and process
an application for a simple design or a straightforward mechanical
device, such as a hand-operated kitchen utensil or a basic toy with few
or no moving parts; $2,500-$4,500 for average complexity, such as a
small electronic device or an innovative cog for an assembly line; and
$3,500-$15,000 or more for complex projects such as chemical or
biotechnological patents. Computer software patents can be simple,
moderately complex or extremely complex, depending on the nature of the
application.
- The Indian government has formed an
advisory committee to recommend changes in the 1970 Indian Patents Act.
A temporary ordinance for patent protection implementing the "mailbox"
provisions of the WTO TRIPS agreement and providing for exclusive
marketing rights was issued in December 1994.
- A trademark or trade mark is a
distinctive sign or indicator of some kind which is used by an
individual, business organization or other legal entity to uniquely
identify the source of its products and/or services to consumers, and to
distinguish its products or services from those of other
entities.
- Specialized types of trademark
include certification marks, collective trademarks and defensive
trademarks. A trademark which is popularly used to describe a product or
service (rather than to distinguish the product or services from those
of third parties) is sometimes known as a genericized trademark. If such
a mark becomes synonymous with that product or service to the extent
that the trademark owner can no longer enforce its proprietary rights,
the mark has become generic.
- Copyright is a set of exclusive
rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or
information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an
original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration.
The symbol for copyright is "©", and in some jurisdictions may
alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).
- Copyright subsists for a variety of
lengths in different jurisdictions, with different categories of works
and the length it subsists for also depends on whether a work is
published or unpublished. In most of the world the default length of
copyright for many works is generally the life of the author plus either
50 or 70 years.
- Intellectual property rights as a
collective term includes the following independent IP rights which can
be collectively used for protecting different aspects of an inventive
work for multiple protection:- Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks,
Registered ( industrial) design, Protection of IC layout design,
Geographical indications, and Protection of undisclosed
information.
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Property and Licensing
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