Intellectual Property

• It is defined by the World Intellectual Property Organizations (WIPO), as the "creation of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs and symbols, names, and images used in commerce."


  Intellectual Property
• What are the five (types) of Intellectual Property?

  1. Copyright
  2. Patent
  3. Trademark
  4. Industrial Design
  5. Geographical Indication and Appelation of Origin
• It is also known as "author's right"; it is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and artistic works.

  The works covered by this type of IP range from books, music, paintings, sculpture, and films, to computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps, and technical drawings.

  Copyright
• Novels, poems, plays, and reference works are what?


  Literary Works
• Paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs are what?


  Artistic Works
• What are the two (2) types of rights under a Copyright Law?

  1. Economic Rights
  2. Moral Rights
• It is the right of an owner/author to be properly compensated financially upon his or her permission for the work to be used by another.


  Economic Rights
• It is the right to non-economic interests of the author. It also pertains to the authors' "right to claim authorship of a work and the right to oppose changes to work that could harm his reputation.''

  Moral Rights
• What are the works that are NOT covered by copyright due to insufficient authorship due to being of importance to public interest?

  1. Unprotected Subject Matter
  2. Works of the Government
• It is among the following:

  • News of the day and other miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information.
  • Any official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, as well as any official translation.

  Unprotected Subject Matter
• These are rules and regulations, speeches, lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations, pronounced, read or rendered in courts of justice, before administrative agencies, in deliberative assemblies and in meetings of public character.

  Works of the Government
• It referes to the copying of a copyrighted material, with the purpose of using it for a review, commentary, critic, or parody, without the need to ask permission from the copyright owner.


  Fair Use
• It is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.

  To get this, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.

  Patent
• What kind of protection does a patent offer?

  In principle, the patent owner has the exclusive right to prevent or stop others from exploiting the patented invention. In other words, patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially made, used, distributed, imported or sold by others without the patent owner's consent.
• • It is a sign capable of distinguishing goods or services of one enterprise from those of other enterprises.
  • A word, symbol, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product.

  Trademark
• A trademark symbol for an unregistered trademark; a mark used to promote or brand goods. 


  "TM" in superscript
• A trademark symbol used for an unregistered service mark; a mark used to promote or brand services.


  "SM" in superscript
• It is a trademark symbol used for a registered trademark.


  "R" surrounded by a circle
• It constitutes the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article/object.

  Industrial Design
• What is the coverage of the design of an object?

  Shape, patterns, lines, or colors
• Its role is to create and execute design solutions for problems of form, function, usability, physical ergonomics, marketing, brand development, sustainability, and sales.

  Industrial Designer
• It is the name of a geographical region or a sign indicating that a product or a service originate from a specific geographical locality and possess specific quality and characterisitices attributable to its geographical origin

  Geographical Indication (only) and Appellation of Origin
• It is the Republic Act (R.A.) No. 8293 of the Philippines.

  Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines
• What does WIPO mean?

  World Intellectual Property Organizations
• Copyright does not cover "ideas, procedures, and methods of operation or mathematical concepts" because no one person or institution can claim sole ownership of these.
• What are examples of companies, organizations, or businesses that have a "TM" in superscript symbol?

  YouTube and Starbucks
• What are examples of companies, organizations, or businesses that have a symbol "R" inside a circle?

  McDonald's
• AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CODE AND ESTABLISHING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE, PROVIDING FOR ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

  Republic Act No. 8293
• The date when the Republic Act No. 8293 was approved.


  June 6, 1997