Industrial and Intellectual Property Law

INDUSTRIAL AND
INTELECTUAL
PROPERTY LAW
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 interpretation of intellectual property right and protection of subject matter........................1
1.2 Explain types of intellectual property and laws associated with it........................................1
1.3 impacts of intellectual property on public interest................................................................2
1.4 Issues that is related to the breach of confidential information in IPR..................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Underlying principal of copyright.........................................................................................3
2.2 interpret trademark and various elements for protects of word and symbols........................4
2.3 Evaluation of copyright law of UK,Europe and at international level..................................5
2.4 Explain about the framework of trademark law in UK,Europe in relation to trademark
treaty and community trademark system.....................................................................................5
2.5 Evaluation of limits, enforcement and infringement of copyright and trademark\...............5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Justification for intellectual property.....................................................................................6
3.2 Misuse of intellectual property in civil and criminal remedies.............................................6
3.3 Law of industrial design........................................................................................................7
3.4Explain legal and administrative mode to apply for or to deal with infringement of
industrial property rights..............................................................................................................7
3.5. Explain the UK law national registered design right and an unregistered design right
system..........................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
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INTRODUCTION
Industrial law are the laws that deals with all the regulation which is required by an
industry to follow in order to its establishment and functioning. The scope of this law is wider as
it covers lot of other laws which deals with labour, environment and employment. Intellectual
property are those laws that deals with the issues of intangible and other rights which can be felt.
Basic concept of Intellectual Property Right and associated laws, impact over public interest and
breach of information. Further principals of copyright, trademark and its elements. Copy right
law in UK and its infringement. Legal aspect of intellectual property right.
TASK 1
1.1 interpretation of intellectual property right and protection of subject matter
These are those types of laws that deals with those things which cannot be see and can
only be felt. Intellectual property law covers those aspects in which there are those intangible
things which are created by human intellect. It covers those rights and rules which are there to
secure inventions, designs and art work. Copyright, patents and trademarks are some parts of
intellectual property. The scopes of these laws are wider in nature as it relates to the industries
and innovation taking place within them. It has wide range of departments that comes under
these laws which includes various elements that are different from others and is provided by only
one manufacturer. The laws of this kind helps in maintaining a balanced between the original and
fake products in market. From this point of view the nature of Intellectual Property Right is to
protect the distinct product and technologies. Subject matters are protected under these law
through copyright, patents and trademarks they are applicable in different sectors according to
there rules and regulations. Over all intellectual property laws are those kinds of rights that are
given for those types of thing which are of intangible in nature and covers various concepts that
are related to art, culture and technology under it. These are also there to protect uniqueness of a
subject matter and also punishments are there if in any situation someone tries to breach the laws
mentioned in intellectual property rights (Schwartz, 2016).
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1.2 Explain types of intellectual property and laws associated with it
These are fundamental rights that are there to increase investment, new ideas of a
company which are developed through research work done for its development. It gives
protection to investors or inventors who are not able to gain benefit of there effort. This purpose
the law contains four types of sub elements and that are there for dealing with issues accruing
regarding the aspect is mentioned below.
Patents: They are those forms of rights that protects those kinds of unique invention
which are done by a company with the help of there engineers. So, that they cannot be copied by
anyone. These are also applicable in industries as there is development of techniques in
mechanises to ease down the process of work. These are given for a certain time period of 20
years. It can increase depending upon situation accrued at that time.
Copyright:These are important from the perspective of literature and art related work. It
gives an assurance of protection to the holder by giving him exclusive right over the content and
forms developed by them. It is important from the point of view of those different concepts
which are related to art and culture. These are there to save the uniqueness and gives right to the
person who has developed it.They are given mostly for a longer period of time like 90 years or
so.
Trademark:It is there to create an distinct sign that is used by an company or a
manufacturer to differentiate its product and services in the market. It includes protection of
those products that are specially formed by a particular company. These are mostly in relation to
a brand and a manufacture. So, trademark is there for the protection of an distinct product in the
market (Rodríguez-Andina, Valdes-Pena and Moure, 2015).
Then there are other things such as design which is there to protect the outer appearance
of a product or machine, database is also there to protect some substantial part of the database of
a company. Last thing is trade secrets which protects a unique formula, practice and design
developed by a company.
1.3 impacts of intellectual property on public interest
Intellectual property rights has an impact over public interest because both of them are
interrelated to each other in a sense that these laws are developed for the protection of those
things that creates an impact over public at large. Theses laws achieves legitimacy and is useful
in creating a balance between public interest and private privileges which are given for
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