Question: What do I need to carefully considered intellectual property protection?
Answer: Firstly, you need to determine your property belong to which type of intellectual property, then determine the appropriate method to protec it.
a. Regard to the Copyright subjects, Article 49 Registration of copyright and related rights provides that:
1 Registration of copyright and related rights as the author, the copyright owner, the copyright owner concerned applicant and accompanying documents (hereinafter collectively referred to as the application) for state agencies authority to record information about the author, the work, the owner of copyright and related rights owners.
2 The applicant for the grant of registration certificate of copyright registration certificates and related rights is not a mandatory procedure to be entitled to copyright or related rights under the provisions of this Act.
3 Organizations and individuals who have been granted the certificate of copyright registration, registration certificate authority concerned has no obligation to prove the copyright and related rights belong to them when there is a dispute, unless where there is proof to the contrary.
b. Regard to the industrial property rights objects, Article 10: Receive an application for registration of industrial property, the filing date – provides that:
1 Application for registration of industrial property only state agency management of industrial property rights if there is at least receiving information and the following documents:
a) A request for registration of a patent, industrial designs, layout designs, trademarks, geographical indications, including sufficient information to identify the applicant and label templates, list of products and services branded services for trademark registration applications;
b) The description, including the scope of protection of the patent application; the photographs, drawings and descriptions of applications for registration of industrial designs; description of the specific characteristics of products bearing geographical indications for application of geographical indications;
c) Receipt of payment of the filing fee.
2 The filing date is the date the agency is state ownership of industry is receiving or filing date of the international application under international treaties
