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At ZTCI, we specialize in protecting your intellectual property through patents and copyrights. Whether you're an innovator with a groundbreaking invention or a creator looking to safeguard your original work, our expert team ensures your rights remain secure. Our expertise includes Patent, industrial design, trademarks, geographical indications, licensing and tech, Transfer agreements.
Both patents and copyrights are forms of intellectual property (IP), which refers to creations of the mind. While they both provide legal protection to creators, they protect different types of creations and have distinct characteristics.
A patent is a legal right granted by a government to an inventor for a limited period, typically 20 years from the filing date of the application. In exchange for this exclusive right, the inventor must publicly disclose their invention in a detailed patent application.
What patents protect:
Inventions: This includes new and useful processes, machines, articles of manufacture, compositions of matter, or any new and useful improvement of them.
How something works or is made: Patents focus on the functional aspects of an invention.
Key characteristics of Patents:
Novelty: The invention must be new and not previously disclosed to the public.
Non-obviousness: The invention must not be obvious to a person skilled in the relevant field.
Usefulness/Utility: The invention must have a practical use.
Government Grant: Requires a formal application and examination process by a patent office (e.g., USPTO in the US).
Territorial: A patent granted in one country only provides protection in that country.
"First to file" principle: Generally, the first person to file a patent application for an invention will have superior rights.
A copyright is a legal right that protects original works of authorship as soon as they are "fixed in a tangible form of expression." This means the work must be written down, recorded, or otherwise captured in a medium that can be perceived.
What copyrights protect:
What copyrights do not protect:
Ideas, concepts, methods, systems, or discoveries: Copyright protects the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. For example, the idea of a love story cannot be copyrighted, but a specific novel telling that love story can be.
Facts and information.
Short phrases, names, slogans, or titles (these may be protectable under trademark law).
Key characteristics of Copyrights:
Automatic Protection: Copyright protection generally exists from the moment the original work is created and fixed in a tangible medium, without the need for registration.
Duration: Typically lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years after their death. For anonymous or "works made for hire," it can be 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation (whichever is shorter).
Rights granted: The copyright owner generally has the exclusive right to:
Reproduce the work.
Prepare derivative works based on the original.
Distribute copies of the work.
Perform the work publicly.
Display the work publicly.
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