Copyright | Database | UDR | RDR | Trademark | Passing Off | Patent | |
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| Goodwill | Inventive new item (not just an idea) |
(Un)- Registered? | Unregistered | Unregistered | Unregistered | Registered | Registered | Unregistered | Registered |
Duration | Author’s life + 70 years | 15 years from date of creation | 15 years or 10 years from sale or hire | 5 years renewable up to 25 years | 10 years (renewable) | Indefinite | 20 years |
Ownership | Person who creates it | Person who creates it | Creator or Employer if in course of empl. | Creator or Employer if in course of empl. | Person who it is registered to | Person/ Business that has goodwill | Inventor or Employer if in course of empl. |
Requirements | Recorded Original (low) | Substantial investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting contents | Original: not a copy and not commonplace Not an exclusion | Novel Individual Character | Sign – graph. rep. Not already reg. Distinctive Not descriptive Not deceptive | Goodwill Misrepresentation leading to confusion Damage | Novel Inventive Step Industrial Applic. Not an excluded field |
Infringement | Copying Distribution Performing, showing work in public Adaptation Secondary: dealing w/ | Same as copyright | Primary: indirectly making design w/out perm. Secondary: knowledge and importation | Making, offering, putting on market, exporting, importing or using design | Identical/ Similar product & mark Orally, visually, conceptually similar. | Misrepresentation that causes confusion and as a result damage | Using w/out permission – purposive interpretation |