United Kingdom Intellectual Property – Confidential Information
What is safeguarded? privileged information What advantages are there? provides protection from unauthorized disclosure How does one obtain it? automatically appears (no registration) What is the duration of it? indefinitely
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United Kingdom Intellectual Property - Patents
What is safeguarded? new procedure or invention What advantages are there? exclusive permission to use the technology How does one obtain it? registration What is the duration of it? twenty years after application United Kingdom Intellectual Property – Summary of Unregistered design right
What is safeguarded? articles with a three-dimensional shape What advantages are there? forbids article copying for commercial purposes How does one obtain it? automatically appears (no registration) What is the duration of it? 10 years, with a maximum of 15 years United Kingdom Intellectual Property – Summary of Registered design right
What is safeguarded? newest product designs What advantages are there? the exclusive right to exploit the design for profit How does one obtain it? registration What is the duration of it? 25 years after registering (maximum) United Kingdom Intellectual Property – Summary of Database Rights
What is safeguarded? compilations of knowledge What advantages are there? provides protection from unauthorized copying How does one obtain it? automatically occurs (no registration) What is the duration of it? 15 years after the database's inception or revision United Kingdom Intellectual Property Law – Summary of Copyright
What is covered under copyright? 'Artistic output'; expression of creativity What advantages are there? stopping copying How does one obtain it? automatically appears (no registration) What is the duration of it? seventy years from death (usually) United Kingdom Intellectual Property Law - - Summary of Passing off
What is safeguarded? goodwill (such as a name, a logo, or an accompanying "get up") What advantages are there? provides defense against unfair imitation. How does one obtain it? automatically occurs (no registration) What is the duration of it? Indefinitely United Kingdom intellectual Property Law – Summary of Trademarks
What is safeguarded? a name or logo used to identify a product or service (or, in some cases, a shape) What advantages are there? a monopoly on the use of the trademark with legal protection How does one obtain it? registration How much time does it last? Indefinitely United Kingdom Intellectual Property Law - Withdrawal of the UK from the EU
The link between EU and UK IP rights has to be reviewed in light of Brexit. The primary goals of the adopted UK legislative provisions are mainly to maintain the status quo, such as allowing EU right holders to exercise similar UK rights in the UK (because the EU right itself will no longer be applicable). Due to the fact that many of their clients are global corporations or at least operate within the EU, UK lawyers will still need to be familiar with EU intellectual property procedures. United Kingdom intellectual Property Law – Various other IP rights.
There are various other IP rights. For example: Database right -Copying of information Semiconductor topography -Copying of computer ‘chips’ Plant varieties- Anyone else selling the registered new variety of plant Moral rights -Inappropriate treatment of an artist’s work Performers rights- Copying of live performances |
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