INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
Intellectual property law is the branch of law that protects people’s creations by assuring their creators or owners of the works; among other things, it is divided into two areas, which are copyright and industrial property.
Purpose of intellectual and industrial property rights
- Copyright: Protects literary, artistic, and scientific works, such as books, music, films, paintings, and software.
- Industrial property: Includes patents, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models, and trade secrets.
- Patents: Grant inventors exclusive rights to their inventions, such as innovative products or processes.
- Trademarks: Protects names, logos, or symbols that identify products or services.
- Geographical indication: Recognizes the origin and unique characteristics of certain products related to their location, such as tequila or Parmesan cheese.
- Related rights: Safeguards the interests of performers, phonogram producers, and broadcasting organizations.
Characteristics of intellectual and industrial property rights
Intellectual property law seeks to create an environment that balances individual and collective interests, stimulating progress and access to innovation and culture.
Areas of application where intellectual and industrial property rights can be found
Intellectual property law provides you with the tools to guarantee the exclusivity, recognition, and profitability of your work.
That is why we can find it in the following areas.
- Copyright: Protects literary, artistic, musical, and cinematographic works, software programs, among others, allowing authors control over reproduction and distribution.
- Industrial property: Covers inventions (patents), distinctive signs (trademarks), industrial designs, and utility models.
- Patents: Regulates the protection of novel and useful inventions, granting exclusivity to inventors for a specified period.
- Trademarks: Protects names, logos, and other distinctive signs that identify products or services in the market.
- Industrial designs: Safeguards the aesthetic and functional characteristics of products created for mass production.
- Trade secrets: Protects confidential information with business value, such as formulas, processes, and strategies.
- Related rights: Regulates the rights of performers, phonogram producers, and broadcasting organizations related to protected works.
- Plant varieties: Protects new plant species developed through agricultural research.
- Protection against unfair competition: Provides measures against practices that affect intellectual property, such as trademark imitation or design plagiarism.
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Frequently Asked Questions
It is the set of rules that protect the creations of the human intellect, such as literary and artistic works, inventions and trademarks.
Literary, artistic, scientific works, inventions, industrial designs, trademarks, trade names, among others.
Copyright: Protects artistic and literary works.
Industrial property: Protects inventions, trademarks and designs.
No, the right arises automatically when the work is created, but registration facilitates legal protection.
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