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Copyright

Copyright is when a person creates an original piece like

literary, Dramatic Sequence, Musical and or Artistic Work.
Many need permission and or to buy the program in order
to use it so it isn't copyright material and you dont get
charged plagiarism.
When you own copyright on a work, you can control how
its used and distributed.

Copyright

From The article of Macleans Magazine Can stern letters

really stop Canadians from downloading illegally?, It
states that Canada will be enforcing letters for illegal
copyright which isnt a fine but a notice, and after three
letters you will be charged 5000$. They can easily track
down your IP Address and then find you from there.

Copyright

Legislatures and copyright lawyers would argue that this

would represent the apocalypse; that human creativity
and innovation (assuming that copyright Abandonment
would also extend to inventors/owners of the invention)
would not exist because people would have no motivation
to create their ideas if they didnt get legal protection.
Thats of course a wildly unreasonable suggestion, if only
because cavemen; who had no copyright laws that we
know of; didnt stop inventing tools or painting on cave
walls. Creativity is as natural and strong like a human
instinct as breathing; nothing will stop it.

Sources for Copyright

http://
www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr0
0003.html?OpenDocument
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/can-canada-stop-illegal-d
ownloading
/
http
://www.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/does-capitalism
-really-need-copyright-laws
/

PATENT

A Patent is kind of like copyright but its

something to do with inventions like Door Knobs
The only way you are eligible for protection is

New- first in the world

Useful- functional and operative
Incentive- showing cleverness and not obvious to someone of average skill in
the field of invention.

The invention can be

A Product (Door Locks)

A Composition (Chemical Composition used in fabrics for Door Locks)
A Machine (For making Door Locks)
A Process (Method for making Door Locks)
An Improvement on any of these

PATENT
Macleans magazine has brought up the fact that
according to the C.D Institute; there has been a
decline in the number of applications for a patent.
Though pharmaceutical products have sometimes
been seen as a Canadian innovative strength, our
analysis seems to indicate that when Canadians do
contribute to these sectors, their contributions may
be intended for international markets.

PATENT

Courts long ago recognized an inventors right to benefit from innovation,

laying the foundation for modern intellectual property law. But this spawned an
unintended creature: the patent troll. Thats a derisive term for an entity that
acquires patents solely for the purpose of suing others for infringement, much
like the folkloric monsters that extracted tolls for the right to cross a bridge. The
latest mutations are called mass aggregatorssecretive organizations that are
basically trolls on steroids. They operate on a scale and at a level of
sophistication and complexity that would have been unimaginable a decade
ago, write Tom Ewing and Robin Feldman, two American academics, in a recent
paper analyzing such entities. Heres how mass aggregators operate.

SOURCES
http://
www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/
eng/wr03716.html?Open&wt_src=cipo-patent-main
http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/patent-appli
cations-by-canadians-declining-across-the-country
/
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/investing/how-patent
-trolls-operate
/

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
If you're producing distinctive-looking new products,
you'll want to register your designs. Industrial designs
are product features that appeal to the eye. They can be
a new shape for the hood or fenders of a car, the original
pattern in a woven sweater or all of the visual features of
a computer monitor. A product's visual appeal gives it a
competitive edge, setting it apart from others and
making it the one people will buy. Industrial design
registration gives you exclusive, legally-enforceable
rights for up to 10 years in Canada. Others cannot make
or sell the design without your permission. You can sell
your rights or license others to make, use and sell your
design.
To be eligible for registration, a design must be original,
i.e., not closely resemble a design already registered.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Industrial design is a process of design applied to
products that are to be manufactured through
techniques of mass production. Its key characteristic is
that design is separated from manufacture: the creative
act of determining and defining a product's form takes
place in advance of the physical act of making a
product, which consists purely of repeated, often
automated, replication. This distinguishes industrial
design from craft-based design, where the form of the
product is determined by the product's creator at the
time of its creation.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Industrial designs arent patents. A design protects esthetic,
visual features, explains Hunters colleague, patent agent
Andr Thriault. It can be the shape of a drinking bottle or a
pattern on wallpaper or carpet. A patent is more for protecting
useful features and inventive concepts. Dwelling on this
distinction, the court peered hard into the glasses. Its
September decision noted differences in the interior curves
and proportions. Ignoring the air space (which it deemed
purely functional) the court found Trudeaus glasses have
almost none of the features of Bodums. It also accepted
evidence that double-wall vessels existed as early as the late
1700sthus invalidating Bodums designs.

SOURCES
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic
.nsf/eng/wr03717.html?Open&wt_src=cipo-id-main
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design
http
://www.canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-industrie
s/bodum-glass-design-case-sparks-a-patent-war
/