Intellectual Property (IP) litigation and WIPO
Article by John Kessel
Legal disputes over intellectual property is big business and a challenge that very often several million dollars. What is the cause of many countries to protect their intellectual property? Intellectual property rights through the different categories according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is protected. WIPO is a specialized agency of the United Nations on the development of a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP). Litigation today is the intellectual property, especially in cases where patents, trademarks / trade dress, copyright, trade secrets and commercial disputes relating to competition in the areas of competition, unfair trade secrets and other technology areas such as cybersquatting and domain name. Intellectual property is protected with the following objectives, to give
For moral and economic rights in the works to the right of public access to creativity creationTo / innovationDissemination and application of the fair trade SafeGuard knowledgeTo funding for the public to promote intellectual property interest
divided into two categories,
Industrial Property, inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications of origin, contains copyright, literary and artistic works include such novels, poems and plays, films, musical works artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures and architectural designs.
International Roundtable on the Economics of intellectual property is held every year in Geneva, Switzerland, is 26 April as the World Intellectual Property Day celebrated in order to raise public awareness of intellectual property understanding. WIPO’s vision is that IP is an important tool for economic, social and cultural development of all countries. These forms of their task, the effective use and protection of IP to promote world.
2001 – Creating the Future Today from 2002 to 2003 promoting creativity – your business is intellectual property, 2004 – Promoting Creativity 2005 – Think, Imagine, Create 2006 – begins with themes of the World IP Day in recent years were an idea, 2007 – Promoting Creativity 2008 – Celebrating the respect and promotion of innovation in intellectual property