Protecting Designs And Intellectual Property Flashcards
IP
What is it
Can ideas count as IP?
What is an essential factor of a design when seeking IPR
IP - Intellectual property
An idea that is turned into a physical creation that didn’t already exist
Ideas alone are not IP, must be in physical form
Uniqueness is essential when seeking IPR (IP rights)
IP laws vary country to country
Copyright and design rights
What is it
What does it allow the owner to do
What does the UK copyrights, designs and patents act do and for how long does it last
What protection do unregistered design rights give and for how long
Is registration required? What is dis of not having ownership
What symbols and 3 other things can be used to prove ownership
Copyright is LEGAL PROTECTION for works like photo dramas music films software tv series
Allows management of permission for others to use it
UK copyrights, designs and and patents act 1988 provided covered for 70 years after death
Unregistered design rights - give legal protection for designers to stop unauthorized copying for 10 years
Registration not required but then ownership harder to prove in dispute
© Symbol used, metadata and watermarks on digital files make it easier to assert ownership
Good to keep early drafts, sketches
UK copyright services provides independant evidence of authorship
Registered designs
What does it provide protection for
How long does it protect for
Offer legal protection for p. APPEARANCE and decoration, NOT working parts
Last 25 years, must submit fee and design
Fake designer labels are still a problem despite fines
Trademarks and logos
What does it provide protection for What is a logo and what does it need to be What can trademarks include Do u have to apply? What symbol used
Legal protection for brand identity - facilitates marketing
Logo - graphical symbol - needs to instantly stand out
Trademarks can include graphics eg words or phrases
Must do application and a fee
Use ® symbol
Open designs
What is it? KW communal altruistic realise
What is FOSS and how is it linked to open designs
What is a creative commons licence
How is open designs linked with 3D printing
Give eg of open designs
Practical action - what do they do
Fair phone - what’s special about the phone and what does it try stop about modern day phone use culture
1950s shipping container design
It is a communal altruistic approach to design that is intended to realise products and systems for the common good of society
Initiatives are generally internet based and involve FOSS - Free Open Source Source
3D printing is an eg of sharing facilitated by universal file formats eg DXF and STL
A creative common licence = a public copyright licence - allowed for ppl to use it AND DEVELOP IT but maintains original owners rights
Eg:
Practical action - organisation challenging poverty by producing freely copiable designs for life improvement projects eg water pumping, purification systems
Fair phone - an eg of of an open source software-based, modular and easily upgraded and repaired mobile phone challenging the current trend to discard phones every few years
1950s shipping container patents were leased to the ISO international organisation of standardisation, with no royalties, facilitating current worldwide freight transport
Patents
For novel innovations
Only for working parts
20y legal protection but are expensive and complicated to get
Must be new or significantly improves current design
Detailed labelled diagram needed
