Intellectual Property Types
Categories of intellectual property protection.
The main forms of intellectual property with what each protects and its typical duration: patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets and industrial designs, plus geographical indications, plant variety rights, utility models and trade dress.
Use it when
- You need to tell which kind of IP right protects an invention, a work, a brand or a design.
- You are checking typical terms of protection.
Watch out for
- Terms and requirements differ by country; the term column gives common values and not the law of any one place.
- Registration is required for some rights (patents, registered designs) but not others (copyright arises automatically in most countries).
The data
9 rows
| Type | Description | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Patent | Exclusive right to an invention for a limited period. | Usually 20 years |
| Copyright | Protection for original works of authorship. | Author's life plus 70 years in many jurisdictions |
| Trademark | Protection for signs distinguishing goods or services. | Renewable indefinitely |
| Trade Secret | Protection for confidential business information. | As long as secrecy is maintained |
| Industrial Design | Protection for the ornamental design of an article. | Usually up to 15-25 years |
| Geographical Indication | Protects the name of a product whose quality or reputation comes from its place of origin, such as Champagne. | As long as the link to the place and the quality persist |
| Plant Variety Protection | Breeders' rights over new, distinct and stable plant varieties. | Typically 20 years, 25 for trees and vines (UPOV) |
| Utility Model | A lighter, shorter-lived patent-like right for incremental inventions, available in some countries. | Typically 7 to 15 years depending on the country |
| Trade Dress | Protects the overall visual appearance of a product or its packaging that identifies its source. | As long as it is used and remains distinctive |
Fields
The shape of this dataset, read from the data itself: every column, its type and a real value. Agents can use this to plan a query without fetching the whole document.
| Section | Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | type | string | Patent |
| data | description | string | Exclusive right to an invention for a limited p… |
| data | term | string | Usually 20 years |
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