Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations such as inventions, literary works, and symbols used in commerce, divided into industrial property and copyright. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), established in 1967, promotes IP protection globally. Major types of IP rights include patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, and integrated circuit topography, each with specific protections and regulations.

1. Intellectual Property

2. What is Intellectual Property??
Intellectual property refers to creations of the
ideas, inventions, literary and artistic works;
and symbols, names and images used in
commerce.

3. IP is Divided Into Two Categories??
Industrial Property:
Includes patents for inventions, trademarks,
industrial designs.
CopyRight:
Covers literary works
such as novels, poems and plays, films, music,
artistic works, even programming (e.g., drawings,
paintings, photographs and sculptures) etc.

4. WIPO
 WIPO ( World Intellectual Property
Organization ) was established by the
WIPO Convention in 1967
 The WIPO is a specialized agency of
the United Nations.
 It promote the protection of IP
throughout the world.
 Its headquarters are in Geneva,
Switzerland

5. Five Main Types Of IP Rights??
Patents
Trade Mark
Copy Right
Industrial Design
Integrated Circuit Topography

6. Patents
Definition:
• A patent describes an invention for which
the inventor claims the exclusive right.
NEW (Novel)
USEFUL
NOT OBVIOUS
PERTAINS TO PATENTABLE
SUBJECT MATTER
INVENTION PATENABLE IF.....

7. Youngest Patent-holder on wheelchair
a wheelchair-bound
nine-year-old boy
here has invented a
game of six-player
circular chess. The
boy, Hridayeshwar
Singh Bhati has
got the game's
design patented in
his name.

8. Trademarks
• Trademark:
A symbol, logo, word, sound, color, design, or
other device that is used to identify a business
or a product in commerce.
Different Symbols are :
® Registered trademark

9. Trademarks
Name
Logotype
Symbol
Slogan
Shape
Color

11. Copy Right??
Rights derived from any
original literary, dramatic,
musical or artistic work
can be registered
from the moment this
work is created.

12. Literary Films Dramatic
Musical Sound RecordingArtistic
What is covered by copyright?

13. Industrial Design??
Designs are such as
those featured
in these products, are
known
for their visual appeal.
Design must
be original
Can be two or
three dimensional

14. IC’s Topography??
Configuration of
electronic circuits
embodied in integrated-
circuit products or layout
designs.

15. IC’s Topography??
Used in many
technologies, such
as:
•Computers
•Automobiles
•Pacemakers
•Industrial Robots
•Cameras
•Spacecraft
•Etc

16. Software law
• Software copyrights
A software patent or copyright is a legal way to protect
your software source code, idea, ... Both patents
and copyrights protect software from theft under the law.
• software patent
A software patent is a property right that
protects computer programs or any
performance of a computer from computer
programs. A software patent is considered a
type of utility patent with no true legal
definition. Software patents are a topic of
controversy both in the United states and
around the world.

17. • Software license
A software license is a legal instrument
governing the use or redistribution of
software. Under United States copyright law,
all software is copyright protected, in both
source code and object code forms,
• Software license agreement
In proprietary software, an end-user license
agreement or software license agreement is
the contract between the licensor and
purchaser, establishing the purchaser's right to
use the software.

19. • Free and open source software
FOSS programs are those that have
licenses that allow users to freely run the
program for any purpose, modify the
program as they want, and also to freely
distribute copies of either the original
version or their own modified version.