IP Protect Module entails identification and capturing of vital intellectual capital and knowledge developed by a company in the course of its operations. These critical intellectual capital or knowledge which contributes to overall competitive advantage of the company can be owned in the forms of patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs or trade secrets depending on the nature of the knowledge.
The challenge of IP Protect Module is to identify the sum total of knowledge or intellectual capital of an organisation, capture and codify the knowledge to become intellectual assets of the organisation and eventually selectively protect the intellectual assets so that they become proprietary of the organisation as illustrated by the diagram in a pyramid structure.
The Table below summaries the different categories of intellectual property assets protectable by the intellectual property system. In essence, intellectual property system protects intangible assets which are the fruits of creative or innovative capacities of the mind and grants the owner the exclusive rights to commercially exploit the assets for a limited duration of time.
The challenge of IP Protect Module is to identify the sum total of knowledge or intellectual capital of an organisation, capture and codify the knowledge to become intellectual assets of the organisation and eventually selectively protect the intellectual assets so that they become proprietary of the organisation as illustrated by the diagram in a pyramid structure.The Table below summaries the different categories of intellectual property assets protectable by the intellectual property system. In essence, intellectual property system protects intangible assets which are the fruits of creative or innovative capacities of the mind and grants the owner the exclusive rights to commercially exploit the assets for a limited duration of time.
性质 | 功能 | 类型 | 保护期限 | 国际保护 |
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专利 | 保护发明,即产品或提供技术解决方案的流程 | a)制品 b)流程 c)机器 d)物质组成 | 自专利申请之日起20年 | a)PCT申请 b)巴黎公约备案 |
商标 | 保护识别某产品或服务独特的标志 | a)产品商标(TM) b)服务标记(SM) | 自商标申请之日起10年 | a)马德里商标 b)巴黎公约备案 |
工业品外观设计 | 保护装饰或美学方面的工业产品 | a)3维特征,例如:形状或表面 b)二维特征,例如:-图案或线条 | 最初的5年,可以续签,大多数情况下为15年 | a)海牙设计 b)巴黎公约备案 |
版权 | 保护降至物质形态的原创思想表达 | 1.文学作品 2.艺术作品 3.音乐作品 4.录音 5.表演权利 | 通常在作者死后50年 | 伯尔尼公约 |
Function: 保护发明,即为问题提供技术解决方案的产品或过程
Types: a) Article of manufacture b) Process c) Machine d) composition of matter
Duration of Protection: 20 years from filing date of patent
International Protection: a) PCT Filing b) Paris Convention Filing
Function: Protects distinctive sign which identifies certain goods or problem
Types: a) Product Mark (TM) b) Service mark (SM)
Duration of Protection: 10 years from filing date of trademark
International Protection: a) Madrid Trademark b) Paris Convention Filing
Function: Protects ornamental or aesthetic aspect of industrial products
Types: a) 3-dimensional features, eg:shape or surface b) 2-dimensional features, eg:-patterns or lines
Duration of Protection: Initial 5 years and can be renewed, in most cases for 15 years
International Protection: a) Hague Design b) Paris Convention Filing
Function: Protects original expression of ideas reduced to material forms.
Types: 1. literary works 2. artistic works 3. musical works 4. sound recordings 5. performing right
Duration of Protection: Usually 50 years after the death of the authors
International Protection: 伯尔尼公约