General Information for Clients - Intellectual Property

Intellectual property encompasses not only the mainstream intellectual property fields, including patents, trade marks and designs, but also other areas, including copyright, circuit layouts, plant variety rights, confidential information, business names and domain names. Fisher Adams Kelly advises, processes and files applications on patents, trade marks and designs. Fisher Adams Kelly also gives advice to clients in respect of the other intellectual property areas namely, copyright, circuit layouts, plant variety rights, confidential information, business names and domain names.

What is Intellectual Property?
“Products of the mind” “…the rights of creative workers in literary, artistic, industrial and scientific fields which can be protected either by copyright, trade marks, patents, etc”

Macquarie Dictionary

A formal view from the Prime Minister Science’s & Engineering Council
“Laws for the protection of Intellectual Property provide for investment in innovation and the creation of such property. They provide this security firstly in the sense that they provide a protective barrier against third parties who seek to appropriate the work of the investor and take a free ride on the work. Without this barrier innovation is like a crop in an unfenced field, free to be grazed by competitors who have made no contribution to its cultivation.”

The Role of Intellectual Property in Innovation PMSEC, vol 2, pg 61, 7 June 1993.

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