Industrial property and intellectual property

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industrial and intellectual property

Industrial and intellectual property or how to protect, watch and value one's creations/innovations:

• PATENTS:

Patents protect new and non obvious technical inventions for a maximum protection of twenty years.

Patents are strategic economic weapons which invest the owner with a right to forbid to any non-authorised third party to product, import and commercialise the patented product or process.

• TRADEMARKS

A trademark is a distinctive sign (usually a word and/or logo and/or slogan) constitutive of an indication guide which summarises the esteem attached to a product or service.

Registered trademarks can be indefinitely renewed by ten years periods.

A registered trademark provides its owner with the right to forbid any reproduction or imitation for identical or similar products.

• DESIGNS

Industrial Designs protect the aesthetic aspect of a new and original object, created for the industry.

They invest the owner with a right to forbid any reproduction of identical or similar designs.

There are French, international or Community designs (as for trademarks).

Designs in France are renewable every five years up to a maximum of 25 years.

Protection by copyright can be cumulated to design protection.

• COPYRIGHT

Any author is granted, thanks to the sole fact of the creation, if this creation is original that is to say if it expresses the personality of the author with exclusive and opposable property: Copyright.

The Author or his successors are invested for a certain time with an exploitation monopoly called copyright.

These rights apply to any creation of the mind, no matter its kind, form, support, merit or destination.

These rights apply to creations of shape but not to ideas, which must remain free.

Copyright contains moral and patrimonial attributes.

• DOMAIN NAMES

This new category of distinguishing signs takes more and more place among the Intellectual property rights.

A Domain Name could be defined as a label under which a company exploits, on the Internet, a virtual office to which the clients can address to obtain goods or services or to get information about its commercial activities. In short, it is an Internet address which is supposed to be easily identified and memorised.

Domain Names constitute by themselves a new label.

The attribution of websites occurs according to a simple and effective principle first arrived, first served.

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