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| Jolly good.yes indeed. Hello, my name is Albert Pending and this is where you can find out about my favourite subject - IP. |
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| IP stands for "Inspired People"..hmmm or is it "Ideas Paradise".Oh that's right, it's "Intellectual Property". That's it..Spot on! |
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| You can find lots of useful info about ideas and innovation here. |
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| Click around and see what you can discover. You can even find out what "Intellectual Property" means. |
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| Assignment of Rights |
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| Occurs when you sell or bequeath your IP rights to someone else. |
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| Automatic Rights |
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| Come into effect at the moment of creation. No formal registration is necessary to protect these IP rights. In Australia, copyright and circuit layout rights are automatic rights. |
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| Circuit Layout Rights |
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| Automatically protect original layout designs for integrated circuits, and computer chips.While these rights are based on copyright law principles they are a separate, unique form of protection. |
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| Commercialisation |
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| Commercialisation of IP is simply about planning how you will take your good idea to the marketplace. It involves working the idea into your business plan, consideration of protection options and considering how to market and distribute the finished product. |
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| Confidential Information |
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| Information and materials of commercial or personal value and kept secret from the general public. |
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| Confidentiality Agreement |
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| Is an agreement between a person possessing confidential information and the person to whom that confidential information will be disclosed? |
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| Copyright |
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| Protects the original expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. It is free and automatically safeguards your original works of art, literature, music, films, broadcasts and computer programs from copying and certain other uses. |
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| Design |
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| The features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation which can be judged by the eye in finished products. Design registration is for manufactured products and NOT artistic designs. In other words, registered designs protect the way manufactured products look. |
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| Design Registration |
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| Registration is not automatic and must be applied for through IP Australia. See 'design'. |
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| Domain Name |
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| The unique name that corresponds with an Internet Protocol address. It is both easy an intuitive to remember. For example, IP Australia's domain name is
www.ipaustralia.gov.au
(.gov = government, .au = Australia). |
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| Industrial Property |
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| A subset of intellectual property, referring to those types of intellectual property that has an industrial application. Specifically, it refers to patents, trade marks, designs, circuit layout rights and plant breeder's rights. |
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| Infringement |
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| Occurs when someone willingly or unwillingly uses your intellectual property without your permission. |
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| Intellectual Property (IP) |
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| IP represents the property of your mind or intellect. Types of intellectual property include patents, Trade marks, designs, confidential information/trade secrets, copyright, circuit layout rights, plant breeder's rights etc. |
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| International Patent Application (PCT) |
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| An International Application with the Patent Office of IP Australia under the PCT (Patent Co-operation Treaty). In your application, you should select the countries in which you want to apply for a patent. |
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| Inventive Step |
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| The invention is not obvious to someone with knowledge and experience in the technological field of the invention. |
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| Licensing of Rights |
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| Gives the licensee the right to use (but not own) the rights. |
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| New |
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| Not publicly disclosed in any form, anywhere in the world. |
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| Patent |
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| A right granted for any device, substance, method or process, which is new and inventive and useful. A patent granted in Australia provides the owner with exclusive rights to prohibit others from manufacturing, using or selling an invention in Australia. |
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| Patent Grant |
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| Grant of a patent is not automatic; you must apply through IP Australia. |
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| Plant Breeder's Rights |
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| Used to protect new varieties of plants by giving exclusive commercial rights to market a new variety or its reproductive material. |
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| Trade Mark |
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| Can be a letter, number, word, phrase, sound, smell, shape, colour, logo, picture, aspect of packaging or any combination of these, which is used to distinguish goods and services of one trader from those of another. |
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| Trade Mark Registration |
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| Registration is not compulsory or automatic. To register, an application must be made through IP Australia. |
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| Trade Secret |
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| Both a type of IP and a strategy for protecting your IP. It includes proprietary knowledge (know-how) and other confidential information. |
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| Useful |
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| Your invention should do what you say it will do. |
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