Intellectual property

Intellectual property refers to a legal entitlement which attaches to intellectual creations. It is comparable to private property. Intellectual property right arises from the acquisition of industrial property protection or from those steps that serve to keep an intellectual creation secret, or in case of literary and artistic works, it begins with their very creation.

Intellectual property can also be considered as a field of law within civil law, the rules of which provide legal protection for the creators or authors of intellectual creations by exclusive economic rights and moral rights.

Intellectual property protection covers following areas

• patent
• utility model protection
• industria design protection
• trademark and geographical indication protection
• topography of microelectronic semiconductor products