ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Industrial Revolution, National Treatment, Patent Pending
Document Summary
Intellectual property law: an introduction: what is intellectual property law. Ip law comprises a wide range of forms of protection for ip statutory and common law arrangements and its aspects are shaped by international, european and national considerations. Statutory rights = 4 principal forms of ip, and in the uk these are protected by statute: Patent law protects inventions (products or processes), which can be described as technical solutions to technical problems. There is no such thing as world patent. Copyright law protects aesthetic and artistic creations, such as literary, music, dramatic and artistic works (original works), together with films, sound recordings, cable programs, broadcasts and the typographical arrangement of published work = derivative works. Copyright was expanded considerably during the 20th century to protect new and emerging forms of ip such as computer software and databases. Copyright protection arises on the creation of a protection work, and there is no need to register the right.
