Module 1

Intellectual Assets

 

Patents: To get exclusive rights to something that you created or own you can get patents. Patents are guaranteed to everyone by the government. It makes so that nobody can steal your idea and make a profit by stealing your work. Patents works for 20 years from the day you give an application. Patents work on processes, machines, products, and composition of matter

Industrial Designs: Industrial Deigns are the features that go on to a shape, a pattern or design, and the way you make something. Industrial Deigns have to have something that makes the person interested. To get an industrial design your concept has to be original.

Trademarks: A trademark is a sentence, sounds/noises, or design. It is used so people are able to tell the difference between from one service from another service.

Copyright: A copyright is when you have the right to make something and sell it or reproduce it. Copyright protects your work such as literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical works.

Trade Secrets: A trade secrets is valuable information that stays away from the public. Trade secrets can be sale methods, distribution methods, customer profiles, client lists, supplier lists, and products etc.