Intellectual property rights include copyrights and industrial property rights. They are rights of ownership pertaining to companies’ know-how and ideas. Intellectual property rights are known by the abbreviation IPR.
Authors get copyrights to their works automatically. Industrial rights need to be applied for.
Copyrights protects works of art. The works have to be independent and original. They have to show the author’s personal expression in some way and be their original work. Copyright does not protect products created through mechanical processes or by copying existing works. Furthermore, copyright does not protect ideas, topics, thoughts, procedures, methods of operation or inventions. Neither does it protect any literary or artistic work; in order to be covered by copyrights, the work has to meet the threshold of originality.
Industrial rights include patents, utility models, trademarks and design rights. The prerequisite for getting the protection of industrial rights is that the product or service differs essentially from the solutions that already exist for corresponding products or services.
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