Enterprise - lecture 7 - Don't get ripped off

• Intellectual property - creations of your mind.
• 4 Categories:
  Patents
  Trademarks
  Copyrights
  Registered designs
• Patents - new inventions.
  Sole rights to produce or someone else to produce for a fee.
• Trademarks
  TM - pending an investigation for originality.
  R in a circle - Registered trademark and original.
• Trademarks - all details - colours, shapes, etc all registered to that company. 
• Registered designs - arrangement of detail under a name.
• Copyright - c (in a circle) date and sign work to prove. Given immediately.
• Intellectual property website - ipo.gov.uk
• Patents - 20 years protected before people can start to use it.
• Trademarks and logos - protected forever - have to be renewed every 10 years.
• Design rights - protected up to 25 years - renew every 5 years.
• Copyright - protected 70 years after death - apart from music - 50 years after creation.

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