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3.04 intellectualpro
Term | Definition |
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Copyright | a legal concept, enacted by most governments, that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution |
Patent | a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure |
Trademark | is a recognizable sign, design or expression which identifies products or services of a particular source from those of |
Service Mark | is a trademark used in the United States and several other countries to identify a service rather than a product. When a service |
Trade Dress | is a legal term of art that generally refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the design of a building) |
Trade Secret | is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally known or reasonably ascertainable |
Doctrine of Fair Use | fair use applies only to copyrighted works, defining some types of uses of those works as non-infringing; in effect, it limits copyright's scope and describes conditions under which copyrighted material may be used without permission. |
Intellectual property | e rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time. |