Learn about IP
- 1 What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
- 2 Trade-marks: Stand out from your competitors
- 3 Industrial Designs: The power of attraction
- 4 Patents: Safeguarding originality
- 5 Copyrights: Express your artistic talent
- 6 Integrated Circuit Topographies (ICT): The heart of technologies
What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
Legal rights that result from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields.
Trade-marks: Stand out from your competitors
Trade-marks are unique identifiers that give exclusive rights to word(s), symbols and designs to distinguish goods or services from those of others in the marketplace.
Industrial Designs: The power of attraction
An industrial design is the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament (or any combination of these features) applied to a finished article made by hand, tool or machine.
Patents: Safeguarding originality
Patents cover new inventions (process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter), or any new and useful improvement of an existing invention.
Copyrights: Express your artistic talent
Copyright means the right to copy. Only the copyright owner, often the creator of the work, can produce, reproduce, or grant permission to others to do so.
Integrated Circuit Topographies (ICT): The heart of technologies
ICT are innovative three dimensional circuit designs. ICT protection will give you exclusive rights over the copying of the topography and the commercialization of circuits that contain the topography.
Leverage Your IP Assets for Business Success
Include IP in your business strategy and make informed decisions to evaluate, manage, protect and exploit your innovative knowledge.
Next Generation Researchers and Business Leaders
As a student, researcher and professor, you create, innovate, and conduct important research which may result in commercially valuable IP.
