ADMS 2610 Lecture : The Law of Property - Chapter 27 - Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks, Copyright and Franchising
26 Jan 2012
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Chapter 27 intellectual property, patents, trademarks, copyright and franchising. Trademarks: historical development, trademarks act, registration, enforcement. Copyright: historical development, copyright act, infringement. Patent: exclusive right granted to the inventor of something new and different to produce the invention for a period of 20 years in return for the disclosure of the invention to the public. Industrial property encourage new inventions: a mark to distinguish the goods or services of one person from the goods or services of others. Copyright: the right of ownership of an original literary or artistic work and the control over the right to copy it. encourage literary and artistic endeavours and protects such works from copyright or use without authorization. Historical development: early forms from english guilds, blend of procedural aspects of usa patent law but retained the common law interpretation and expression of patent rights. Patents apply to inventions which are: new not invented before, useful not a mere idea, actually works.
