ENGINEER 1P03 Study Guide - Access Copyright, Sea Level Rise, Safety Engineering

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Engineering (General)
• Course: ENGINEER 1P03
• Professor: Robert Fleisig

Document Summary

The importance and use of the formally defined types of intellectual property with which specific laws have been written and how to protect your intellectual property: Intellectual property the ideas and creations produced and expressed in tangible form: how we use and acknowledge the ideas is an ethical matter. Information for which ownership has been established for an individual or legal entity (corporation or partnership). Intellectual property can be owned, bought, sold, or shared: government legislation sets legal laws. Protective ones such as patent law don"t extend outside the country unless governments sign agreements extending proprietary rights: types of intellectual property of interest to engineers, patents: The right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention. 20 years of protection from filing date: copyrights: The rights to copy, produce, reproduce, perform, publish, adapt, communicate, and otherwise use literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, including computer programs. Protection lasts life of creator and 50 years (or just 50 years)