Topic 4 Flashcards
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It is the system of rules which a particular country or community
recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may
enforce by the imposition of penalties.
It is a rule of conduct developed by the government or society over a
certain territory.
Law
is the body of law that deals with crime and the
legal punishment of criminal offenses.
deals with behavior that is or can be construed as
an offense against the public, society, or the state—even if the
immediate victim is an individual. Examples are murder, assault,
theft,and drunken driving.
Criminal Law
deals with the disputes between individuals, organizations, or
between the two, in which compensation is awarded to the victim.
is more concerned with cases between individual people where
one person commits an offence which is harmful towards another person,
their rights or their property.
also settles disputes between individuals and organisations.
Civil Law
Difference of Criminal Law and Civil Law?
Civil law aim’s to put the
person who has suffered harm back in the position they were in
before the harm occurred– in other words, the aim is to set right an
unfair situation.
Criminal Law has the aim of punishing the
offender in a way that is designed to prevent them from carrying out
the offence again. Moreover, the existence of laws preventing crime
has a more general aim of creating a stable and law-abiding society.
relates to the establishment
and protection of intellectual creations such as inventions,
designs, brands, artwork and music.
Intellectual Property (IP) Law
is a piece of work that isn’t a tangible
object.
Intellectual Property (IP)
An Act prescribing the Intellectual Property Code and establishing the Intellectual
Property Office, providing for its powers and functions, and for other purposes
R.A. 8293
An Act creating a patent office, prescribing its powers and duties, regulating the
issuance of patents, and appropriating funds therefore
R.A. 165
An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trade-marks, trade-names, and
service marks, defining unfair competition and false marking and providing remedies
against the same, and for other purposes
R.A. 166
Decree on the protection of intellectual property
Presidential Decree No. 49
Types of Intellectual Property (4):
- Copyright
- Patent
- Trademark
- Trade Secrets
is a legal term used to describe the rights that
creators have over their literary and artistic works.
Copyright
grants authors, composers, computer programmers,
website designers and other creators legal protection for their literary,
artistic, dramatic and other types of creations, which are usually referred
to as “works.”
Copyright Law
is an exclusive right granted for an invention.
may protect inventions that meet the criteria of novelty, inventive
step and industrial applicability.
Patent
provides exclusivity over a sign (such as a word, logo. color or
combination of these) which helps to distinguish the products of a business
from those of others.
is a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one
enterprise from those of other enterprises.
Trademark
are IP rights on confidential information which may
be sold or licensed.
Trade Secrets
are items of property that are rivalrous,
nontangible, not services, and which rely on some online
system for their existence.
Virtual Goods
is computer code or
software protected by law under either a copyright,
trademark, trade secret or software patent.
Intellectual Property for Software
Two types of patents to protect software:
- Utility
- protects what the software does.
- Design
- protects any decorative part of your software.
is information you or your company has that other people
don’t have. You use this information in business, and it gives you a leg-up
over your competition.
Trade Secrets
is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or
without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full
acknowledgement.
Plagiarism
