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- 3. Cover original works of authorship, such as books, music, art, and software, protecting the expression of ideas.
- 6. Designs: Protect the aesthetic or ornamental aspects of a product, covering its shape, configuration, pattern, or color.
- 7. Licenses and Assignments: Agreements where the owner of IP grants permission for others to use their creations, or transfers ownership of the IP entirely.
- 9. Circuit Topographies: Protect the unique three-dimensional patterns of electronic integrated circuits.
- 10. domain: The state of a work or invention once its IP rights have expired or were never protected, at which point it can be freely used by anyone without permission
- 11. use: A legal doctrine within copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, or parody.
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- 1. Property Rights: These are legal rights granted to creators, giving them the exclusive right to use, license, or sell their creations.
- 2. Indications: Identify goods that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation due to that origin, like Champagne.
- 4. Secrets: Involve confidential information that gives a business a competitive edge, such as formulas, practices, or processes, and are protected by maintaining secrecy.
- 5. Protect new and useful inventions, providing inventors with exclusive rights to their technology for a limited time.
- 6. Infringement: Occurs when someone uses an intellectual property without the owner's permission.
- 8. Safeguard names, logos, and symbols that distinguish the goods or services of one party from those of others.