Legal issues and standards
- Created by: Lubomir
- Created on: 09-03-16 03:50
View mindmap
- Legal issues and standards
- Trademarks
- Symbols, logos, words or slogans that are used to represent companies.
- Trademarks are shown by a TM mark after the logo.
- The particular turquoise on tins of Heinz baked beans is a trademark.
- Even colours can be trademarks.
- Other companies can't copy them because there is a trademark.
- Patents
- Patents protect a new invention that could have an 'industrial application'.
- Only the designer has the right for the product to be manufactured, unless they sell the patent.
- Patents last for up to 20 years.
- Patents have been granted for things such as cat's eyes on roads.
- Copyright
- Written, drawn, and recorded work.
- Copyright is shown by the symbol 'C'.
- Runs out after a certain length of time.
- For books, it is 70 years after the authors death.
- Registered Design
- Protects a new design's shape and appearance.
- E.g. A car body shape or the design of a mobile phone casing.
- This stops other people from copying the design.
- You can register a design for 25 years.
- Protected throughout the EU.
- Protects a new design's shape and appearance.
- Trademarks
Comments
No comments have yet been made