MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Canlii, Laundry Detergent, Patent Application

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

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Intellectual property: the results of the creative process, such as ideas, the expression of ideas, formulas, schemes, trademarks, also, refers to the protection attached to ideas through patent, copyright, trademark, industrial design, and other similar laws. Examples of intellectual property: advertising jingles, business and marketing plans, recipes and formulas for making products, manufacturing processes, methods of extracting minerals, the distinctive name given to a product or service. Protect inventions and are essential to businesses in the pharmaceutical, electronics, chemical and manufacturing industries, as patents may be used to exclude others from using new technology. Patent: a monopoly to make, use, or sell an invention. Any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter . Monsanto v schmeiser, 2004 scc 34 [2004] 1 scr 902. Canada attorney general v amazon. com inc 2011 fca 328 (canlii)