Week 14: National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka IT and Society

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Week 14: National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka IT and Society

National Intellectual Property Office Situated at : 3rd Floor, "Samagam Medura“ 400, D.R.Wijewardena Mawatha Colombo 10. Web -www. nipo.gov.lkwww. nipo.gov.lk

Vision To Become a leading development oriented agency offering quality based services with enhanced productivity.

Mission To actively contribute to the development of the country by ensuring that the Intellectual Property system fosters an environment conductive to innovate and creative activity, investment and entrepreneurship.

Services offered by NPO Protection for – Copy rights – Patents – Marks – Industrial Designs

Copyrights What is copyright Rights given by law to the creators for their literary & artistic works. Two forms – Economic rights include the right to reproduce, sell, rent, distribute, communicate to the public, translate etc – Moral rights cover the right to claim the authorship and oppose distortion or mutilation of the work.

Why protected Copyright protects the rights of the authors of literary and artistic works and ensures them the economic benefits and recognition thereby promoting creativity in literary and artistic fields and investment. Such creations enhances economic development, education, culture, and enjoyment of life What is covered Copyright covers original literary and artistic works: writings such as books, computer programs, articles, oral works such as speeches and lectures, dramas, musical works, films, drawings, paintings and photographs. The woks such as databases and translations are also protected.

Formality free protection is accorded without any formality such as registration in Sri Lanka. Who owns The author is the owner of economic rights but there are some exceptions such as a work created by an employee generally belongs to the employer. The economic rights can be assigned or licensed. The moral rights always belong to the author. Duration Copyright in Sri Lanka is generally protected during the life of the author and 70 years after his death.

Administration You can administer your right individually. Alternatively, the owners can administer their rights collectively. The collective administration means that the owners form an organization which acts on their behalf in licensing the rights, collecting fees, monitoring use and infringement of rights and enforcement of rights. Protection abroad The woks of Sri Lankan authors are protected in all the member countries of the Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works under the national law of the particular country.

Folklore The expressions of folklore of Sri Lanka are protected against the unauthorized use. Regulation Regulations made under the Intellectual Property Act have been published in Gazette Numbers; 1415/18 of 10th October

Patents Why Patents? – Protect inventions & ensure inventors benefits resulting from inventions thereby providing incentives for creativity, encouraging – further inventions & promoting investment. – Spur economic & technological development. – Describe newly invented technologies & are available for anyone to refer – They contain vital information for researchers, inventors and enterprises etc. who want to keep up with new developments, carry out R&D activities and use new technologies.

What is a Patent? – The State grants the inventor, by means of a patent, the right to exclude others from making, using and selling the qualified invention for a period of 20 years from the date of application for patent. – The owner of the patent can use, sell or license the patented technology and derive financial benefits. What is an invention? – An Invention is a practical solution to a problem in technology. An invention may relate to a product or a process.

What can be patented? an invention is patentable if it – is new ( not known in the body of existing knowledge) – industrially applicable ( functional and operative) – involves an inventive step ( the development or improvement is not obvious to a person of average skill in the particular field. ) May be granted to an improvement of a valid patented invention but if you use it sometimes you may infringe rights of the owner of the first patent.

How a patent is granted? – Make an application to the Intellectual Property Office using a prescribed form. – Submit a document with the application form describing your invention clearly and completely and the claims. – Pay the prescribed fee. ( refer to the regulations for fees). You must submit a search report prepared by an international searching authority or alternatively request the IP Office to forward your invention to a local examiner for search and report.

Renewal – A patent is valid for 20 years from the date of application. – Must be renewed annually from expiration of 2 nd year from the date of grant paying a fee

What is not patented: – discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods – plants, animals micro organisms other than transgenic micro organisms and an essentially biological process for the production of plants and animals other than non biological and micro-biological processes – schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or playing games – methods for treatment of human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practiced on human or animal body – inventions which are necessary to protect public order, morality including human animal or plant life, health, or to avoid serious prejudice to environment.

Marks A mark- trademark or service mark- is a visible sign that is capable of distinguishing the goods or services of different enterprises. Relates to goods whereas a service mark relates to services 2 more kind of marks – Certification marks – Collective marks

A certification mark is a mark which meets a defined standard of the goods or services as certified by the owner of the mark who licenses others to use it. collective marks. A collective mark is a mark serving to distinguish the origin or any other common characteristic of goods or services of different enterprises which use the Mark under the control of the registered owner.

What constitutes a mark? – A mark may consists of a word, a symbol, a device, letters, numerals, a name, surname or geographical name, a combination or arrangement of colors and shapes of goods or containers etc. The visible sign must always be capable of distinguishing the goods or services of different enterprises (it must be distinctive)

Functions of a mark distinguishes the goods or services of its owner from those of others indicates the source of the goods or services individualizes the goods or services of the owner enables the owner to reach the customers helps the consumers to make the choice in the market etc.

What is Industrial Design – It is the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article. It does not have any functional character. A design can be three dimensional such as shape of an article ( design for a toy, bottle, jewelry or chair etc.) or two dimensional such as pattern or lines.( design for a greeting card etc).

Protected Designs – A design is protected if it is new and if it does not consist of scandalous design or a design contrary to morality, public order or public interest. A design is new if it has not been made available to the public anywhere in the world before the date of application for registration.