Trade Mark & Copy Right

Trade Mark

It is distinctive word, name, mark, symbols, design, logo that a company uses to identity and distinguish its product from those of other.

The right of use can be licensed or sold to others

Generally speaking a distractive mark of authority, through which the product of particulars manufacturers or the vendible commodities of particular merchants may be distinguished from those of others. It may consist in any symbol or in any form of words, but as its office is to point out distinctively the origin or ownership of the article to which it is affixed it follows that no sign or form of words can be appropriated as a valid trademark which, from the nature or the fact conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with equal truth and wit equal right for the same purpose.

Copy Right

It is an exclusive property right granted to authors and originator of literacy or artistic production

It must ne original and in a tangible form

Literacy work including books, periodicals, computer programs

It may be dramatic or musical work, pictorial, graphic works, films and audio-visual works, sound recording.

The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. An intangible, incorporeal right granted by statute to the author or originator or certain literary or artistic productions, where sale and exclusive privilege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing and sealing them.