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Intellectual Property
Learning Objectives
- Learn the various types of legal protection afforded to inventors of intellectual
property.
- Describe the difference between the different modes of protecting plant
selections as intellectual property.
- Determine the value of intellectual property protection to the horticulture
industry.
- Complete and submit Assignment #4.
Protecting Intellectual Property
"Intellectual property" is an attribute associated with an organism,
a process, a piece of equipment, a written work, a logo, etc. that gives
added value to that object or process. This added value may be in the form of
enhanced consumer recognition, an assurance of genetic worth, the ability to
predict a certain type of environmental reaction, or just the added value associated
with having exclusive rights to use or manufacture a device. Intellectual
property may be protected
in several different forms.
Read the descriptions
of the various types of patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc. on the
attached pages with special attention to how they impact horticultural commodities.
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