- •Тема 1. Legal system is defined
- •Тема 2. Civil Law is usually compared with Common Law under certain provisions.
- •Тема 3. The appearance and development of Common law and civil law
- •Тема 4. The doctrine of precedent
- •Тема 5. The concept of legal education and its programmers
- •Тема 6. Becoming an attorney in the usa
- •Тема 7. The system of legal education in the uk
- •Тема 8. Becoming solicitor in the uk
- •Тема 9. Becoming a barrister in the uk
- •Тема 10. Law and law related professionals
- •Тема 11. Differences between solicitors and barristers job duties
- •Тема 13. Company legal department
- •Тема 14. What is a intellectual property
Тема 14. What is a intellectual property
Intellectual property, often known as IP, is a fast-moving and sometimes complex area of law. It covers a wide range of diverse issues and allows people to won their creativity and innovation in the same way they can own physical property. In other words, under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets and IP can be bought and sold like other forms of pioperty.
IP typically includes two branches, namely copyright and industrial property (patent law, trademarks, and industrial designs).
- copyright applies to original creators in the literary, dramatic, musical and artistic
fields, sound recordings and broadcasts, including software and multimedia;
- patents grant an inventor the right to exclude others from producing or using the
inventor's discovery for a limited period of time.
- trade marks are generally names, logos or drawings used to indicate the identity of a business. Tiademark status may also be granted to distinctive and unique packaging, colour combinations, building designs, and overall presentations. Service-marks also receive legal protection but meant to but are meant to distinguish services rather than products;
- industial designs protect elements of product appearance (that is, shape or
pattern, not function) resulting from the features of the lines, colours, shape, texture of the product itself or its ornamentation.
Each of the areas is governed by statutes which set out conditions for creation, the process of registration, rights of the registered owner, remedies for infringement and rights of the public to use the property.