Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists
Chapter One
Overview of Intellectual
Property Law
1.1 DEFINING "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"
First, we need to define the core term of our subject: "Intellectual Property." The term Intellectual
Property generically describes those intangible property rights-those you usually
cannot see or touch-which are initially created by one's intellectual creative efforts.
The results of those intellectual efforts, in most cases, are then anointed with these intangible
property rights which give their creator or owner the exclusive ability to control, and
profit from, the results of this creativity. "Intellectual Property Law" is that field of law
which defines those intellectual creations that are entitled to protection as intellectual
property, how to obtain (or lose) those intellectual property rights, how to properly use
and benefit from those rights, and how to obtain enforcement and compensation when
those intellectual property rights are infringed upon by a competitor or other evil person.
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