Potential Legal Issues in Textile Industry: Intellectual Property, Employment Rights, Health & Safety

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1BUSINESS LAW ASSIGNMENT
The start-up textile business that will deal with fabric design and dying process may
experience three potential legal issues pertaining to intellectual property rights, employment laws
and health & safety issues.
Issues related to intellectual property protection:
We are going to start up a textile industry and in this regard, certain problems regarding
the intellectual property provisions have been cropped up. United Kingdom plays an important
role in case of textile industry and therefore, the law on the intellectual property has been strictly
applied. The role of intellectual property in the case of this industry is significant, as it protects
the products and the rights to sell the product. It is necessary for every company to protect all
their rights regarding the sale of the products to the final clients. It is the rights of every company
to get equal protection and intellectual property law will secure the interest of the industrialists to
certain extent. According to the law, legal provisions will be applied in case of any kind of
infringement. The infringement sectors could be divided into following kinds:
 Copy right infringement;
 Trade mark infringement;
 Patent infringement
The development of the textile industry is based on the varieties of designs and several
processes are adopted by the industries in this case. In our business, we are opted for the fabric
design and therefore, we need to protect our rights regarding the same. The fabric designs could
be protected by the copyright and according to the rules of England, the creation should not
necessarily get registered. It will automatically come under the purview of copyright once it is
created.

2BUSINESS LAW ASSIGNMENT
Copyright is an ideal right for the textile industries. There are certain cases where it has been
observed that the designs of a company has been imitated by other company and when filing a
case on the same, the affected company get certain compensation from the infringe maker.
Therefore, it can be stated that copyright plays an important role in this case. Considering all
these situations, it can state that legal issues can be cropped up from the aspect of copyrights and
therefore, it is important to prevent all such violation regarding the product and sale of those
products.
Trademark helps to recognize a company and identify its brands specifically. It is an
important thing to obtain trademark rights so that the originality of accompany could be secured
and a company could be identified properly by the customers. in the absence of any trademark
rights, other companies could misuse the name, efforts and products quality of the company.
Therefore, it is obvious to state that trademark rights are important in this case. The ultimate
reputation of accompany depends on the brand name of accompany and trademark will help to
protect the vicinity of the name (Chow and Schoenbaum 2017). There are certain cases where it
has been observed that the other companies are copied the logo or website address of another
company. Such practices are very common in textiles industry. Trademark can be registered and
can be renewed.
Innovation is an essential element for the textile industry and it is necessary to protect
these innovations for the betterment of the company. One of the most common rights regarding
the same is patent right. Through this process, any inventions regarding the product or the
process could be protected. The application of this right is quite strong and it helps to secure the
interest of the inventor. Fabric designs are coming under the purview of inventions and each
industry should obtain this right to secure their product and show those products in any program