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

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

Document Summary

The results of the creative process, such as ideas, the expression of ideas, formulas, schemes, trademarks, and the like. Also refers to the protection attached to ideas through patent, copyright, trademark, industrial design, and other similar laws. 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. Patent act defines an invention as (cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:374)e(cid:449) a(cid:374)d useful art, pro(cid:272)ess, (cid:373)a(cid:272)hine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new a(cid:374)d useful i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) a(cid:374)(cid:455) art, pro(cid:272)ess, (cid:373)a(cid:272)hi(cid:374)e, (cid:373)a(cid:374)ufa(cid:272)ture or (cid:272)o(cid:373)positio(cid:374) of (cid:373)atter(cid:863) Things that receive protection under other areas of law, such as software programs as they receive protection under copyright law. Things that do not meet the definition of a patent, such as scientific principles.