Outline of intellectual property

This is an outline of topics related to intellectual property. See list of patent-related topics for a list of articles relating to patents.

Types of intellectual property

Copyright

• Berne Convention
• Copyright
• Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution
• History of copyright law
• Moral rights
• Philosophy of copyright
• Sound recording and reproduction
• Statute of Anne

Patents for inventions

• Patents
  • History of patent law
• Utility model

Procedures

• Patent application
• Patent infringement and enforcement
• Patent licensing
• Patent prosecution

Legal requirements

• Patentable subject matter
• Novelty
• Utility (patent)
• Inventive step and non-obviousness
• Industrial applicability
• Person skilled in the art
• Prior art
• Inventorship
• Sufficiency of disclosure
• Unity of invention

Patent law by region or country

• Australian patent law
• Canadian patent law
• Patent law of the People's Republic of China
• European patent law
• Japanese patent law
• United States patent law

Trademark

• Geographical indication
• Protected designation of origin
• Trade dress
• Trademark (including service marks)

Other types

• Database right
• Fashion law
• Indigenous intellectual property
• Industrial design rights (or registered designs)
• Intellectual rights to magic methods
• Internet domain name
• Know how
• Mask work (or Integrated circuit layout design protection)
• Open-source software
• Orphan drug rights
• Personality rights
• Plant breeders' rights
• Plant variety protection
• Related rights
• Semiconductor intellectual property core used in electronic design
• Supplementary protection certificate
• Trade secret
• Traditional knowledge

General topics

• Arrow information paradox
• Background, foreground, sideground and postground intellectual property
• Copyright for Creativity
• Copyfraud
• Fair dealing
• Fair use
• File sharing
• Industrial espionage
• Intangible asset
• Intellectual capital
• Intellectual rights
• Intellectual property brokering
• Intellectual property education
• Intellectual property infringement
• Intellectual property valuation
• IPR-Helpdesk
• Legal aspects of computing
• License
• Limitations and exceptions to copyright
• Daftar/Tabel -- intellectual property law journals
• Plagiarism
• Public domain
• Reverse engineering
• Scams in intellectual property
• Societal views on intellectual property
• Soft intellectual property
• Soft IP

Agreements, law, and government enforcement

• Adelphi Charter
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
• China International Copyright Expo
• Doha Declaration
• EU Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
• French Intellectual Property Code
• Intellectual property issues in cultural heritage (IPinCH)
• Intellectual property organization (including a list of intellectual property organizations)
• International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Plant Variety Protection Act (U.S.)
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
• World Intellectual Property Day (April 26)

See also

• Entertainment law
• Mimi & Eunice, a comic strip about intellectual property problems