Invention means when you have a original idea and can show
the theory of how it works.An example of an invention can be the first car. Innovation is when you are being creative and
thinking outside the box and putting your ideas into practical use. There are
two types of innovation, product and process innovation. Product innovation is
when one brings new product ideas to the marketplace such as the iPhone. Process innovation is new ways of working, such as the assembly line of the Model T.
A patent for an invention is to grant the property rights of
an invention to inventor. The patent grant is ‘the right to to exclude others
from making, using offering for sale or selling’ the invention. The patent makes it unlawful for the anyone to copy the idea of the inventor for 20 years after
the patent has been issued. The patent office will only grant one a patent if
their invention has never been seen publicly before and if it is a significant
step forward for the way we think and has practical applications. If a new small business wanted to patent something, it would be hard as it can be very
expensive and difficult.
Copyright is a form of protection to the authors and
inventors of something they have created. This includes things in literacy,
dramatic, musical, artistic and other pieces of intellectual work both published
and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act gives the owner of copyright the
exclusive right to reproduce their copyrighted product. Although ideas can be copyrighted,
the idea can be changed An example is the copyrighted description on how a
machine works. The copyright signature causes people not to be able to copy the
description, but people can make another description similar to the copyrighted
description. This is allowed as the copyrighted description has been altered.
A trademark is a name, symbol, word or device that is used
in trade with goods in order to indicate the source of the good and not to
confuse them with other goods. Trademark rights are used to prevents others
from confusing themselves with another mark and can also be used to distinguish
certain good from others.
Hi Hannan
ReplyDeleteExcellent work here with some really detailed analysis of some of the information. However, you were asked to find examples and consider the effect (positive and negative) of these laws. Have a go below for me