RIGHTS IN RE PROPRIA IN IMMATERIAL THINGS - www.lawkaro.com
www.lawkaro.com (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY) Proprietary rights are both about material and immaterial things. Material things are physical objects, and all other things that may be a right’s subject matter are immaterial. They are various immaterial products of human skill and labour. These immaterial forms of property are as follows: Intellectual rights are a type of incorporeal property. This kind of incorporeal property recognition and protection have been of recent origin. The justification in accepting these types of property lies in the fact that what a man produces belongs to him, and the immaterial product or a person’s intellect may be valuable as any other material property. Examples of this type of property are patents, literary, artistic, musical and dramatic copyrights, commercial goodwill, etc. THE VARIOUS TYPES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ARE: PATENTS The subject matter of a patent right is an invention such as the idea of a new process, instrument or manufacture. T...