what is Intellectual property rights- trade secrets, copyright, and patents

Last updated on September 23rd, 2023 at 06:57 am

what are Intellectual property rights- trade secrets, copyright, and patents. Today information and information systems have harshly challenged the order as well as social practices. It is very difficult to protect private intellectual property at present.

Intellectual property is the product of the human mind, tangible or intangible developed by a corporation or individual. The development of ICT ( Information Communication Technology ) increases the difficulty of protecting intellectual property. Because all the information of ICT is easily copied and used on networks using different tools of ICT.

Intellectual property can be categorized under three different legal traditions. They are patents (as for invention ), Trade secrets ( for formula or method of doing business ), and copyrights ( for copying of intellectual property ).

What exactly are Intellectual Property rights and Their examples?

Intellectual property rights are the rights of individuals or corporations for the creation of their minds.

In the same way, Intellectual property is the product of the human mind that is either tangible or intangible developed by the individual or corporations. examples of intellectual rights include:

• Logos

• Trade mark

• Domain rights

• Design rights

• Business secret

• Software rights

• Database rights

• Industrial design and so on.

what is the different category of Intellectual property rights?

Intellectual property is subject to a variety of protections which are categorized into three different legal traditions as mentioned below:

1. Trade secrets

All types of Intellectual work products like work formulas, patterns, and devices used for a business purpose are called trade secrets. In the same way, the Protection of trade secrets varies from nation to nation.

Any software or application with unique elements, procedures as well and compilations is known as a trade secret. Some examples of trade secrets are customer lists, company algorithms, working processes, a formula of the product, and so on.

2. Copyright

A copyright is a body of law that disallows the copying of intellectual property without the permission of the copyright owner. The copyright law protects the articles, music, videos, art, movies as well as other expressions of ideas.

In the same way, It also protects the computer software as well as web applications. It protects the creators and their ideas from copying from the other which will be harmful to them. The copyright law helps the creators to encourage creativity as well as authorship.

3. Patents

In the same way, a Patent is the body of law that protects the inventors for their creations under the license of the patent owner. They are a form of incorporeal right.

It is the body of the law which protect the inventors of the new machines, devices, method, and so on.

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What is Privacy?

Privacy is the way we protect ourselves from the misuse of our personal information, details, behavior, and so on in order to maintain secrecy. In computer ethics, privacy is very important to maintain.

In the same way, the growth of ICT leads to our privacy being leaked thereby knowing everything about us to others. That can lead to the disastrous ending of our image in our society. Therefore, to maintain privacy it is in our own hands how we manage and control our privacy as far as possible.