Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Study Guide - Patent Attorney, Industrial Design Right, The Employer

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Frederick King

Document Summary

Intellectual property the results of creative processes: ideas, formulas, schemes, trademarks, patent, copyright, industrial design, etc. Patents: a monopoly to make, use and sell an invention, any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new improvement of them, common exclusions from patent protection. Things that receive exclusive protection under other areas of the law (e. g. computer programs, because they are protected under copyright) Things that do not meet the definition of a patent (e. g. scientific principles, natural phenomena and abstract discoveries are not inventions) Things that are not patentable for policy reasons (e. g. methods of surgical or medical treatment: requirement for patentability. Patents will be granted for inventions that are new, useful and unobvious. Useful an invention must solve some practical problem and it must actually work (e. g. a perpetual motion machine lacks practicality)