Professional Practices: "Intellectual Property Rights"
Professional Practices: "Intellectual Property Rights"
Professional Practices: "Intellectual Property Rights"
“Intellectual Property
Rights”
Contents
• Intellectual property
• Intellectual property rights
– Copyright
– Designs
– Patents
– Trademarks
Intellectual Property
• Intellectual property is a category of property
that includes intangible creations of the
human intellect, and primarily encompasses
copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
• IP rights can be seen as a package.
• Just as the components of a software combine
to form a package, different rights protects
different sub products of a whole product.
What does intellectual property
include?
• In the modern context the term intellectual property,
covers the following aspects in the relevant
categories namely:
– Copyright: literary, artistic and scientific works
covering books, journals, magazines, written
articles etc.
– Trademarks: trademarks, merchandise marks,
service marks, commercial names and
designations like logos.
What does intellectual property
include?
– Patents: inventions like a new form of airplane
engine, a floor cleaner, etc.
– Designs: it includes the shape of a bottle,
machine, model of luxury car or any other
product, etc.
What are intellectual property
rights?
• Intellectual property rights are such rights
which are given to persons who are the
authors or creators of the new and original
literary and artistic works such as books,
articles , other writings ,paintings , musical
compositions, sculpture , films and
computer programs by application of their
creativity process and intellect.
What are intellectual property
rights?
• IP rights are given to such individuals to
compensate for their suffering during such
creative process and their investments.
• These rights are given for a certain period
of time and after which general public
have the right to freely benefit from them
in their benefit and use.
NECESSITY OF INTELLCTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION
• Intellectual property rights protection is
necessary due to following reasons:
– Encouragement to creativity by ensuring its
reward
– Innovations in technology
– Transfer of technology to less developed nations
and countries of the world
WORLD INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
• World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) was established on July 14, 1967
at Stockholm.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
ESTABLISHMENTS IN PAKISTAN
• All the Intellectual Property Rights laws
in Pakistan are being administered and
managed by three different ministries of
the Federal Government, which are as
under:
– Ministry of Education: the Copyright
Ordinance, 1962.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
ESTABLISHMENTS IN PAKISTAN
– Ministry of Industries and production:
• The Registered Designs Ordinance, 2000.
• The Registered Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits
Ordinance, 2000.
• The patents ordinance, 2000.
– Ministry of Commerce:
• the Trade Marks Ordinance, 2001.
• the Merchandise Marks Act, 1889.
Copyright
• Copyright is a legal right , existing in many countries,
that grants the creator of an original work exclusive
rights to determine whether, and under what
conditions, this original work may be used by others.
• In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This
means that the original creator of a product and
anyone he gives authorization to are the only ones
with the exclusive right to reproduce the work.
Copyright
• It protects more items generated by businesses
or individuals than any other aspect of IP rights.
• It protects the form in which words, numbers
and drawings are laid out.
• It can therefore protect business letters,
manuals, diagrams, computer programs and
different lists for examples of customers and
suppliers.
Copyright
• Copyright law gives six exclusive rights to the
owner of the copyright
– Copy the work
– Issue copies to the public
– Lend the work to the public
– Perform, play or show the work in the public
– Broadcast the work in the public
– Make an adaptation of the work
Copyright Works
• Copyright works are the things protected by
copyright law.
• There are nine defined type of works, divided into
three categories.
– Original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work
– Sound recordings, films, broadcasts and cable programs
– The typographical arrangement of published editions.
• Databases and computer programs are also
protected by copyright laws.
Who owns copyrights
• Computer generated and computer aided
work
– If a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is
computer generated, the author is the person by
whom the arrangements necessary for the
creation of the work are undertaken.
– If a work is computer aided, author of the work is
the person who designs it with the help of a
computer.
Who owns copyrights
• What happens when author is an employee?
• When a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic
work is made by an employee in the course of
employment, the employer is the first owner
of any copyright in the work.
Infringement of Copyrights
• Infringement is the action of breaking the
terms of a law or agreement.
• There are two categories of infringement of
copyrights
– Primary infringement
– Secondary infringement
Primary Infringement
• Anyone who performs any of the six acts that
are exclusive for the copyright owner, without
his consent is liable for primary infringement
of copyrights.
• It can be committed entirely innocently so it is
not regulated by criminal law, it infringes only
the civil rights of the owner.
Primary Infringement
• Actions that comes under the category of
primary infringement are
– Copying
– Home taping
– Adaptation
– Rental right
Secondary Infringement
• Beside breaching the civil rights of a copyright
owner, secondary infringement also accounts
to a criminal offence punishable by a fine or
imprisonment.
• It is designed to catch those who trade in and
make profit from pirated goods.
Secondary Infringement
• It occurs when a person
– Imports an infringing copy other than for private
and domestic use
– Possess an infringing copy in the course of a
business
– Sells or let for hire an infringing copy
– Transmits the work by mean of a
telecommunication system
– Involves in indirect infringement.
THE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE 1962
• Any person violating the said ordinance shall
be punishable with imprisonment which may
extend to 3 years or with fine which may
extend to 100,000 rupees- or with both.
Design
• What is a design?
– The appearance of a product, in particular, the
shape, texture, color, materials used, contours and
ornamentation. To qualify as a new design, the
overall impression should be different from any
existing design.
• What is a Design Right?
– A design right is an intellectual property right that
protects the visual design of objects.
Design
• Who owns the design right?
– Typically the creator of the design owns any rights
in it, except where the work was commissioned or
created during the course of employment, in
which case the rights belong to the employer or
party that commissioned the work.
Design
Design Rights