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日本語What is Industrial Property Right?
It was formerly known as industrial ownership and it is a right recognized by law for industrial development.
Industrial property rights include patent rights to protect the protection of human intellectual creations by law, utility model rights, design rights,
and trademark rights to protect trademarks that image commercial credit.
Trademarks are not generally regarded as intellectual creations of human beings.
They are classified as industrial property rights in the same way as patent rights, utility model rights and design rights,
but their character is different from other industrial property rights.
Type of Industrial Property Right
| Division | Patent | Utility model | Design | Trademark |
| Definition | · The first invention of a thing or method that has not been done yet |
· The device of an article that has already been invented to make it more convenient and useful |
· A form, shape, color of the article, or a combination of these, to make the user feel the sense of beauty |
· A symbol, letter, figure, combination thereof, or combination of these with a color that is clearly distinguished from that of another person |
| Example | ·A phone that Bell invented for the first time by applying electronics |
· A handset which was originally separated into transmitter and receiver |
· Making a desk phone in hemispherical shape or square shape |
· Phone manufacturing companies in order to maintain the credibility of its products as marks that appear on product or packaging, marks, etc. |
| Term of patent | · 20 years after filing date | · 10 years after filing date | · 20 years after filing date | · 10 years after filing date (Renewable every ten years, semi- permanent right) |