Intellectual property Introduction

Miloš Martínek17th December 2013

Contain

• Legal framework

• Statutory regulation of intellectual property rights

• Copyright and rights related to copyright

• Industrial rights

• Other rights and other economic values

• Scientific discovery

Legal framework

• Copyright:• Worldwide - informal

• Industrial rights:• international – EPC, PCT system• regional – EPO, EAPO• national – individual countries

Competent authorities are such as the Ministry of Culture, IPO (Czech national authorities), EPO, OHIM (regional authorities), WIPO (international authority), USPTO (foreign national authority – USA).

- patent attorney authorized to represent at a competent authority

Statutory regulation IPR

Copyright and rights related to copyright

• Copyright (Literary, art and scientific work)• exclusive moral rights• exclusive economic rights

• Rights related to copyright

• Right of database maker to his database

Statutory regulation IPRIndustrial rights – technical solutions

• Patent • New• Industrially applicable• Inventive activity

• Utility model• No protect for all of the methods, processes and procedures

• Innovation• Technical manufacturing, operational improvement• Addressing issues of health and safety

• Topographies semiconductor products• The layout and interconnection of semiconductor devices

Statutory regulation IPRIndustrial rights – other

• Design• Visible parts of the final product – lines, material, pattern, …

• Plant variety rights• Newly bred plant varieties

• Trademark• phrase trademark• image trademark• the combined trademark,• word graphic trademark,• spatial trademark,• the trademark consisting of a colour or combination of colours.

• Designation of origin and geographical indication• All raw materials and production process is limited to a given location• It was manufactured or processed from a given area and its quality is

affected by the territory

Statutory regulation IPR

Other rights and other economic values • Commercial name

• Trade secrets

• Confidential information

• Know-how

Scientific discovery

Characteristic is an inconsistent and inadequate legislation - moral and customary law.

• Privacy can be solved by concurrence

• Unfair competition protection

• Legal protection of personality

Thank you for your attention

Study materials are available onwww.citt.cz