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Protecting Your Ideas

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Intellectual Creations You Can Protect

Have you invented a new device for monitoring children? Or started a new theme restaurant that is wildly successful? The question is: Can you protect your intellectual creations and prevent competitors from creating imitations?

What Laws Protect My Intellectual Creations?
What Intellectual Creations Can I Register?
What Intellectual Creations May Still Be Protected Without Registration?
What Are The Main Types Of Intellectual Property Rights?
How Do I Know If My Intellectual Creations Can Be Protected?
What Intellectual Creations Cannot Be Protected?


What Laws Protect My Intellectual Creations?

  • In Singapore, laws that protect such intellectual creations are known as Intellectual Property (IP) laws.

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What Intellectual Creations Can I Register?

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What Intellectual Creations May Still Be Protected Without Registration?

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What Are The Main Types Of Intellectual Property Rights?

  • Each one of the following Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) gives the IP owner the right to prevent others from using, selling, licensing, reproducing, transferring or exploiting your intellectual creations without your permission for a specific period of time.

  • The 4 main types of IPR are listed below:

    Main Types
    of IPR

    Examples of What the IPR Protects

    Patent

    A product or process that offers a new technical solution to a problem.

    This could be a new method of doing things, the composition of a new product, or a technical improvement on how certain things work.

    E.g. an anti-theft device for a vehicle, a ringpull tab for a can, or a computerised mousetrap.

    Trade Mark

    A sign which includes any letter, word, name