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Outline of intellectual property

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to intellectual property:

Contents

Intellectual property – intangible assets such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets.

See outline of patents for a topical guide and overview of patents.

Types of intellectual property

Some examples of intellectual property include:

  • Artistic work
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Computer program
  • Indigenous intellectual property
  • Internet domain name
  • Invention
  • Trademark
  • Service mark
  • Trade secret

    • Types of intellectual property rights

  • Copyright
  • Moral rights
  • Patents
  • Trade dress
  • Database right
  • Industrial design rights (or registered designs)
  • Intellectual rights to magic methods
  • Personality rights
  • Plant breeders' rights
  • Passing off

    • Intellectual property law

  • Fashion law
  • Integrated circuit layout design protection
  • Plant variety protection
  • Supplementary protection certificate
  • Berne Convention
  • Copyright
  • Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution
  • History of copyright law
  • Moral rights
  • Philosophy of copyright
  • Sound recording and reproduction
  • Statute of Anne

    • Patents law

  • Patents
  • History of patent law
  • Biological patent
  • Software patent
  • Utility model

    • Patent procedures

  • Patent application
  • Patent infringement and enforcement
  • Patent licensing
  • Patent prosecution
  • Patentable subject matter
  • Novelty
  • Utility (patent)
  • Inventive step and non-obviousness
  • Industrial applicability
  • Person skilled in the art
  • Prior art
  • Inventorship
  • Sufficiency of disclosure
  • Unity of invention

    • Patent law by region or country

  • Australian patent law
  • Canadian patent law
  • Patent law of the People's Republic of China
  • European patent law
  • Japanese patent law
  • United States patent law

    • Trademark law

  • Geographical indication
  • Protected designation of origin
  • Trade dress
  • Trademark (including service marks)

    • General topics

  • Anti-copyright
  • Arrow information paradox
  • Background, foreground, sideground and postground intellectual property
  • Copyright for Creativity
  • Copyright infringement
  • Copyfraud
  • Industrial espionage
  • File sharing
  • Music piracy
  • Patent troll
  • Plagiarism
  • Scams in intellectual property
  • Digital rights management
  • Fair dealing
  • Fair use
  • Free culture movement
  • Free software movement
  • Free content
  • Intangible asset
  • Intellectual capital
  • Intellectual rights
  • Intellectual property brokering
  • Intellectual property education
  • Intellectual property infringement
  • Intellectual property valuation
  • IPR-Helpdesk
  • Legal aspects of computing
  • License
  • Public copyright license
  • All rights reserved
  • All rights reversed
  • Anti-copyright notice
  • Copyleft
  • Free license
  • Share-alike
  • Limitations and exceptions to copyright
  • List of intellectual property law journals
  • Orphan works
  • Public domain
  • Reverse engineering
  • Societal views on intellectual property
  • Societal views on patents
  • Soft intellectual property
  • Soft IP

    • Agreements, law, and government enforcement

  • Adelphi Charter
  • Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
  • Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
  • China International Copyright Expo
  • Doha Declaration
  • EU Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
  • French Intellectual Property Code
  • Intellectual property issues in cultural heritage (IPinCH)
  • Intellectual property organization (including a list of intellectual property organizations)
  • International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
  • Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
  • Plant Variety Protection Act (U.S.)
  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
  • World Intellectual Property Day (April 26)

    • References

    Outline of intellectual property Wikipedia
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