How Can You Protect Your Intellectual Property Rights
IPR provides the legal protection to intangible things such as copyrights, trademarks etc. According to the law, these intangible things should be provided the same legal protection as tangible things. It is the ownership of one’s ideas. If you are creating a unique product making the human life more easy then your idea, method of making the product and the product should be protected from being copied. That’s where intellectual property rights play a significant role. Types of Intellectual Property Rights; The Copyrights Act, 1957: Copyright act protects the authors of original ideas. Original artistic, literary, or musical works, such as books, films, pictures, and software, are protected by copyright. The authors are protected by copyright for a minimum period of 50 years after the death of the author. The Trade Marks Act, 1999: Trademark is the mark or symbol, which is capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one person from those of others. It includes th...