The 5 Intellectual assets in Canada
Patent: Protects your new invention and/or new improvements. Patent is granted by the government and excludes other from using your innovation for their personal use.
Industrial Designs: the visible features that appeals to the eye of a finished products. The design must be an original to register to protect the products appearance.
Trademark: A combination of words or designs to separate one’s good or service from others good or service in the marketplace.
Copyright: the exclusive legal right to replicate, copy, or perform a work or a significant amount of that work. Copyright provides security for literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical work.
Trade Secrets: important business information meant to be kept from the public and other business to not derive its values from its secrecy.
Public Domain
Creative Common
Attribution: To let other people configure, change, or share your work even commercially as long as they give you credits for your original work.
ShareAlike: Lets other configure, change, build upon your work even for commercial purposes as long as they give credit and licenses their creation with the same terms.
NoDerivs: Gives other access to redistribute your creation so long as it’s unchanged with credits to you
NonCommerical: Your work can be tweaked non commercially. Doesn’t allow others to share or reuse your work for commercial purposes or to gain money.