ECONOMICS
PROPERTY RIGHTS
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
The design of a video game character
|
|
|
Apple’s specific office design
|
|
|
The unique shape of a brand of furniture
|
|
|
All can have it applied
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Design rights are a form of intellectual property right. A design right can be used to protect the appearance or the design of a newly designed item. This protection applies for a certain period of time and for selected countries and/or regions. Officially design rights are known as design and models rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -Design rights include decorative patterns, graphic symbols, the shape of products and their packaging. Examples include the external look of the building or a shop front, such as the one protected by Apple.
Detailed explanation-3: -An industrial design right protects only the appearance or aesthetic features of a product, whereas a patent protects an invention that offers a new technical solution to a problem. In principle, an industrial design right does not protect the technical or functional features of a product.
Detailed explanation-4: -Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are valuable assets of the company and understanding how they work and how they are created is critical to knowing how to protect them.