The Patent and Copyright System

We cover only the basic principals of the patent and copyright systems. For more details information we suggest that the reader visits there national patent office or their web site.

The copyright is one powerful tool that can protect your property from being copied or used without your permission. What is the copyright and what does it protect?

Due to the explosion of the materials published on the Internet, because of their electronic status, the copyright for them is slightly diffrent from the copyright for a printed material or other intelectual property more easily protectable. See what you should have in mind when publishing on the Internet.

Protecting an idea may not have much succes because the copyright does not protect ideas. You may find yourself put in the situation to be forced to implement an ideea to be able to protect it. But what are the risk of doing this?