Intellectual property right
Davide L. Petraz
University of Trieste - Faculty of Economics
Academic year 2016-2017
Advantages of intellectual property
- Passive utility
- Active utility
- Direct use
- Indirect use
- Cross licence
- Economical asset
- Market share
Benefit from intellectual property
The IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights) permit to have a profit higher of 20–25%; The BASCAP (Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy) and ICC Commission on Intellectual Property confirmed that – on equal terms – a patented invention has double economical value than the one not patented.
Definitions of intellectual property
- Secret information
- Patents
- Utility models
- Semiconductors topographies
- Trademarks (including the firm, the insignia)
- Geographical indications
- Domain names
- Designs
- Copyright (including software, database, etc.)
IP value • Top 20 global brands 2016
- 1020
- 3040
- 5060
- 7080
- 910
- 111213
- 141516
- 17181920
Types of right
| Content | Max duration | Fees paid on filing | Maintenance fees | Novelty | Inventive activity | Secrecy | End of period of grace | Extension with multiple procedures | Other conventions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patent of invention | 20 | First 4 years | Every year | Absolute | Required | Min 3 months Max 18 months | 12 months from first filing | EP PCT | Eurasian patent OAPI – ARIPO |
| Patent for utility model | 10 | Min first 5 years | Every 5 years | Absolute | Required | Min 3 months Max 18 months | 12 months from first filing | EP PCT | Eurasian patent OAPI – ARIPO |
| Design or model | 25 | Min first 5 years | Every 5 years | Absolute (prior disclosure up to 12 months allowed) | Individuality | From 0 to 30 months as requested | 6 months from first filing | International model Community model | OAPI – ARIPO |
| Trade mark | 10 renewable | 10 years | – | In the state | Distinctive, not descriptive | – | 6 months from first filing | International Trademark Community Trademark | OAPI |
Trade secret
Secret information 1/4
Company information and technical-industrial experience (know-how) are all covered by protection, including commercial information subject to the legitimate control of the employer. Also covered are the data relating to tests or other secret data, the processing of which entails a considerable undertaking; the authorization for marketing chemical, pharmaceutical or agricultural products implying the use of new chemical substances is subordinate to the presentation of such data.
- Limits a) It must be secret, that is, in its totality or in the precise configuration and combination of its elements it is not known or easily accessible to experts or those working in the field.
- Limits b) It has an economic value because it is secret;
- Limits c) It is subject to measures deemed reasonably adequate to keep it secret by the persons legitimately authorized to do so.
Secret Information 4/4
- Secrecy clauses
- Confidentiality agreements
- Non-competition agreements
© Copyright
Secrecy Agreement 1/3
This is the agreement according to which a person undertakes not to divulge certain information that is transferred to him or that he acquires knowledge of. The obligation not to divulge derives from:
- Art. 2105 CC; whereby the worker must not divulge information concerning the organization and production methods of the Company for which he works or use the same in such a way as to cause harm;
- Arts. 98 and 99 IPC: see previous slides.
Secrecy Agreement 2/3
With reference to Arts. 98 and 99 IPC, the secrecy agreement is normally signed by (main cases): a researcher (physical or juridical person)
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