BUSI 3705U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Industrial Design
Document Summary
Any new useful art, new useful improvement, applies to lots of different things. You need 3 things to obtain patent: new: invention has not been disclosed publicly, useful: it has to work, unobvious: some ingenuity / inventive step involved in the invention. The person that files first is the person that gets it. It has to be something that has been manufactured and mass produced. Dates back to the 16th century to the printing press. We are giving you the right to make copies in order to disseminate and distribute amongst societies. How do you protect a copyright: first, you need to be sure the work is original. (uncopied, second, fixation is needed, which means the work is expressed in a medium that is capable for reproduction. Fair dealings and copyright infringement is determined by courts. If you just collected info, and organized it in a specific way, the doesn"t rise to originality.
