What Exactly is Intellectual Property

Intellectual property in general is referred to symbols, names, images, and designs used in business and creation of inventions, literary and artistic work.

Intellectual property is divided into two parts:

1. Copyrights
2. Industrial Property

Copyrights includes literary and artistic work. For example, writings like poems, novels, plays and artistic work like paintings, photographs, designs and drawings.

Industrial property includes patents, trademarks, inventions, industrial designs, and trade secrets.

In general, intellectual property is used as common term for patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and inventions.

Every country has different intellectual property laws. In some countries like USA, even states also have some variations of those laws.

Intellectual Property

Hi, My name is Kate and I am an Intellectual Property Lawyer from Boston city of MA. I am mainly with the cases of intellectual property litigations and issues like copyrights, trademarks, patents, inventions and company trade secrets.

This blog is about my experience intellectual property rights and what all information you need to know about patents, copyrights and trademarks. We will also discuss about cases of intellectual property theft and what sort of actions you can take if you are the one involved into it. We will soon have a section about the process for filing applications for various patents and copyrights. Will also provide information on how you can do it alone online without the need of any lawyer.

I hope this blog is a success and all of us learn more about intellectual property rights in USA and around the world. Hope to see you here again. Thank you.