What is Intellectual Property, often called simply ���IP���?
IP is a term used for the rights
which protect your ideas and other
forms of intellectual creation in just
the same way that you own
physical assets. Some rights have to
be registered to be effective, others
arise automatically without a formal
registration procedure.
The main forms of IP are:
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Patents
Copyright
Designs
Database rights
Trademarks
If you would like to know more
about the nature and scope of IP,
you can obtain a ���Researcher���s
Guide to IP and Confidentiality���
from UMIP or view it at:
www.umip.com/researchers_guides.htm
There are also three other relevant
guides and a ���workbook��� available in
hard copy form and on the website.
In addition, there are
commercialisation case studies to
complement this Guide which are
also available for download.
UMIP can describe the University���s
IP policy to you and the position
that the University takes in
various circumstances.
For further information about the
University���s IP Policy, see the
executive summary at:
www.umip.com/ip_execsummary.htm
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