Week 11 Flashcards
Real Property
Land and everything permanently attached to it
Aboriginal Title
Unique form of title in certain lands in Canada belonging to Indigenous peoples
Personal Property
All property, other than land and what is attached to land
Chattles
Personal property that is movable, the value of which comes from its physical form
Choses in Action
Personal property, the value of which comes from legal rights.
Right to Exclude
*Excluding others from entering an owner’s land, or interfering with an owner’s use of the land
*Right to prohibit others from copying or modifying a copyright work (such as a book)
Rights to possess and use
Land ownership can be separated, where one party has ownership, and another party has possession rights.
(lease)
Right to transfer or dispose and exceptions
Dispose or transfer property to someone else.
Exceptions: land ownership for the duration of one’s life only
Personal property that was borrowed
What is intellectual property?
Intellectual property (IP) is a legal term that refers to creations of the mind (rather than things people built) .
There are other specialized types of IP such as plant varieties, circuit topographies, and personality rights.
Patents
A monopoly to make, use, or sell an invention.
They exclude others from using new technology.
They can include processes such as pay-per-use billing systems and compositions such as compounds.
What do patents protect
They protect Inventions and are essential to businesses in the pharmaceutical, electronics, chemical and manufacturing industries.
What can’t be patented?
Things that receive protection under other areas of law (software programs and they are protected under copyright)
Things that do not meet the definition of a patent (scientific principals)
Things that are, for policy reasons not patentable (surgical treatment)
Requirements for patent ability
New (doesn’t have to be absolutely new if it had not been disclosed publicly)
Useful (must solve some practical problem and work)
Unobvious (must be some ingenuity or inventive step involved in the invention)
Industrial designs
Visual features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornamentation, or any combination of these, applied to a finished article.
Industrial design protection for
Protection for the appearance of mass produced (more than 50) useful articles or objects
Requires registration
Industrial design requirements for registration
Normally a written description and a graphic depiction, photogrammetry it’s drawing is required.
The owner is entitled to make the application
The basic principle is that the designer is the owner unless the design was ordered and paid for by another
Industrial design protection
Registration lasts for 10 years.
The owner gets exclusive right to make, import or sell any article in respect to which the design was registered
Proper marking D with circle around it next to name of proprietor
It is not mandatory to make the design as registered.
Trademark
A word, symbol, design or any combination of these used to distinguish the source of goods or services.
Trademark examples
A word, words or slogan (Just do it)
A design (McDonald’s Golden Arches)
A series of letters (BMW)
Numbers (lotto 649)
A symbol (Nike swoosh)
A distinguishable guise (Coca-Cola bottle)
Any combination of above
Unregistered trademark
- often referred to as a common law trademark
- it comes into existence when a business simply adopts and uses it
- infringement can be addressed through the tort of passing off
- it only has rights in the geographic area in which it has been used
registered trademark
Has more protection than unregistered
- protection is national
- it creates a presumption of ownership, validity
Copyright
The right to prevent others from copying or modifying certain works
- governed by the copyright act
- doesn’t protect against underlying ideas
-applies to every original artistic work.
Copyright: Originality
The work must originate from the author, not copied from another
Copyright: Fixation
The work must be expressed in some forced form, such as paper or diskette
Copyright Registration
Copyright arises automatically
- an optional registration process
- you can mark your work but isn’t mandatory
- generally lasts life of author +50 years
Exception to copyright
When an employee creates the work as part of their job
Rights under copyright law
- Reproduction
- Public performance
- Publication
- Translation
- Adaption
- Mechanical reproduction
- Rental
- Moral rights
Copyright: reproduction
The right to reproduce the work or a substantial part of it in any material form
Copyright: public performance
The right to perform the work or a substantial part of it.
Copyright: adaptation
The right to convert works into other formats (book to a movie)
Copyright: mechanical reproduction
The right to make sound recordings or cinematographic recordings