lesson 6.2

• Industrial property, as one of the major branches of IP, is described as a physical matter that is a product of an idea or concept for commercial purposes
• Patent grants are the most used means for protecting inventions and creations which can be a product or a process that significantly provides a new way of doing something or offers a technical solution to a problem.
• Conditions that need to be satisfied before a patent can be granted:

  1. Novelty or New
  2. Inventiveness or Non-obviousness
  3. Usefulness or Industrially Applicable
• In general, a patent document is composed of the following:

  Bibliography

  Abstract – this can be found either in the bibliography or the following page

  Specifications

  • Background of the invention;

  • The summary of the invention;

  • A detailed description of the invention;

  Claims of the invention

  Drawings (if applicable)
• Advantage of Patent Information: Uniform structure, well-organized information, up-to-date information, wide fields of technology, find information sooner
• Patent database: IPOPHL's Philpat, PatBase, WIPS Global, TotalPatents, WIPO's PATENTSCOPE
• patentable inventions: a product such as machine, a device, process or method, computer-related inventions, and improvement of any of the foregoing
• Non-patentable inventions: Discoveries, scientific theories, mathematical methods, schemes, rules, methods for treatment, aesthetic creations, contrary to public or morality, plant varieties or animal breeds
• Utility Model or sometimes referred to as “patent-like” or “utility innovations” or “innovation patents”
• Utility Model is a type of protection that also allows the creator or applicant to prevent others from commercially exploiting his/her UM without his authorization
• UM is particularly suited for protecting inventions that make small improvements, and adaptations of, existing products or that have a short commercial life
• industrial design is a type of protection for the visual appearance of the product.
• industrial design is a type of protection for the visual appearance of the product.
• Integrated circuits - a product, in its final form or an intermediate form
• Layout-design – a three-dimensional disposition
• A trademark protects a business’s brand identity in the marketplace
• A geographical indication is a sign being used to identify the origin of goods or products having special characteristics, identify the territory of specific goods
• trade secrets have no formal requirements for registration