Types of IP

Intellectual Property (IP) is about far more than just Patents. There are four main types of IP rights which you can use to protect your inventions or creations.

U.S. unveils plan to fight intellectual property piracy

WASHINGTON - The United States unveiled a wide-ranging strategic plan on Tuesday protect intellectual property from pharmaceuticals to films and pledged to confront governments that fail to crack down on piracy.

“Piracy hurts, it hurts our economy,” Vice-President Joe Biden said in releasing the 61-page plan drafted by several government agencies.

“It hurts our health and safety. We need to protect our citizens from unsafe products [such as] counterfeit pharmaceuticals.”

Victoria Espinel, co-ordinator of the intellectual property task force, said China — which has long been singled out for allowing piracy of software, music and other goods — would remain under close scrutiny for copyright and patent protection.

“We will initiate a comprehensive review of current efforts in support of U.S. businesses that have difficulty enforcing their intellectual property rights in overseas markets, with a particular focus on China,” she said.

The plan underscores U.S. efforts to protect U.S. products and service from piracy, citing the range of vulnerable items such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software, films and music.



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The intelectual Property Office of UK

Every nation tries to protect the Intellectual Properties. The IP office of UK helps the people to protect their ideas, innovations, creation or invention.

Patents, trade marks, designs and copyright are the services if this office. They claimed that Intellectual Property (IP) results from the expression of an idea. So IP might be a brand, an invention, a design, a song or another intellectual creation. IP can be owned, bought and sold.

Intellectual property as an important issue to protect the innovations and creativity has been put in the limelight by apple . In Jan 2009, apple has been awarded by Us Trademark office the patent covering the key aspects of iphone's multi touch interface.

Steve Jobs, as the first auther , of the published 356 pages of drawings describing the iphone's functions and operation systems interface.

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The necessity of protecting Intellectual Property

The necessity of protecting Intellectual properties is unclear to some people. They ask why the IP must be protected.

The answer is that innovation is something critical for every field. If innovation and creativity were not secured and protected, businesses would not reap the full benefits of their inventions and would focus less on research and development.

In this post of my weblog, I am gonna introduce a digital water marking to protect the intelectual Property. :

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Visual Watermark is photo watermarking software for digital photo protection. This photo watermark software places very strong watermarks that no one can remove. Your digital photos will be effectively protected from unauthorized use. It is useful for everyone who wants to protect their photos.

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By paying only 20$ . Pictures could be protected .

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Richard Humphrey, USAWAREZ.COM Operator Sentenced for Selling Pirated Copies of Movies

Richard Humphrey, 22, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, due to distributing and selling of counterfeit copyrighted movies in the internet was sentenced to 29 months in prison. This was made but the judge of District Court Judge Lesley Wells. being 3 years under supervision after his 29 months in prison is the other side of his sentence. All the computers and hard drives being used by Humphery for this crime were forfeited .

His main website of activity was USAWAREZ.COM in which he has distributed many copies of movies, games and software product without authorization from the copyright owners.

This crime has been detected by Attorneys Tyler Newby and Tara Swaminatha of the

Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Assistant U.S.

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