UTILITY MODELS

- Salao defines a utility model as a petty patent for new and industrially applicable technical solution
of a problem.

- Another definition is a statutory monopoly granted for a limited time in exchange for an inventor
providing sufficient teaching of his or her invention to permit a person of ordinary skill in the relevant
art to perform the invention.

NOTE: A term is for non-renewable 7 years.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

- any composition of lines or colors or any three-dimensional form, whether or not associated with
lines or colors provided that such composition or form gives special appearance to and can serve as
pattern for an industrial product or handicraft.

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

- a product in its final form or an intermediate form, in which the elemnets, at least one of which is an
active element and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in and/or on a piece of
material and which is intended to perform an electronic function

LAYOUT-DESIGN

- the three-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements, at least one of which is an
active element, and of some or all of the interconnections of an integrated circuit or such a
three-dimensional disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture