Creative Enterprise Development Programme - Resources

Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.

Intellectual Property is divided into categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs.

Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs.

Who can I contact about IP, Patents & Copyright?

• The UK Patent Office: www.patent.gov.uk
  

• Patents Office Ireland: www.patentsoffice.ie
  

• Invest NI, Technical Information Service: www.investni.com
  

• Acid - Anti Copying in Design: www.acid.uk.com
  

• World Intellectual Property Organization: www.wipo.int

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