Types of IPS Flashcards
Form of protection granted to authors of original works of a
creative and artistic nature
Copyrights
It grants the author the commercial and moral rights, including exclusive
right to use, copy/reproduce, make derivative works.
Copyrights
What does Copyright protect
*literature
* music
* figurative arts
* architecture
* theater
* cinematography
* videogames
* performances
Who/what grants the copyright
Berne Convention (1886)
Characteristics of copyright durations
Limited in time
Berne Convention: author life + 50 years after
US + 70 years after
It varies in country and type of work
Copyrights, unlike patents:
Arise automatically in the very moment of creation
There are offices and procedures for registering copyrights
registration constitutes a prove of authorship and date of publication, but failure to register does not cause a loss of the right
2 copyrights requirments
Novelty and Originality
In all countries where software patentability is excluded, the software is protected by
Copyright, 15 years coverage
IPR used to protect
devices that improve the
efficiency or ease of use of a machine, tool, object or process or one of its parts
Utility model
Considered a second-tier
mechanism to protect inventions (often called
petty patents), as they are used for protecting
ideas with a small inventive step.
Utility models
Utility models: what can be protected
– apparatus and devices
– chemical substances
– medicinal products
Utility Models: Procedure
National route and separate states procedures. No International.
Utility models: requirements
similar to patents inventive less strict and requirements are not examined when registered and published. They are examined in court, in case of a lawsuit.
Utility models Austria and Germany (state of art)
Six months grace period
Germany: only things inside Germany (uses publications)
Differences
Utility models V. patents
1. Registered territorial IP right
Same
Differences
Utility models V. patents
2. Available in countries
UM. limited
P. most
Differences
Utility models V. patents
3. central filing in Europe
UM. NO
P. YES
Differences
Utility models V. patents
4. Time protection
UM. 10 years
P. 20 years