Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Copyright Registration, Patent Attorney, Herbicide

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

Document Summary

View that intellectual property is one of the most valuable asset of any business in knowledge economy. Realizing wealth by protecting and exploiting intellectual property. Understand the rights that attach to intellectual property. Understand how to protect the intellectual property assets of an organization. Protections the creation of the mind, not ideas. The results of the creative process, such as ideas, expression of ideas, formulas, schemes, trademarks, etc. Also the protection attached to ideas through patent, copyright, trademark, industrial design, and other similar laws. Intellectual property also describes bundle of rights that people have regarding their ideas or ways in which they are expressed. Distinctive name given to a product or service. Major forms: patents: monopoly to make, use, or sell an invention. Patents: monopoly to make, use or sell an invention. Essential to businesses in the pharmaceuticals, electronics, chemicals, and manufacturing industries. Patents may be used to exclude others from using new technology.