IP Word of the Day

Digital clothing isn’t made of fabric or anything tangible. The garments are made from pixels rather than textiles, using computer technologies and 3D software. So you’ll never wear an item of digital clothing in real life. Instead, you can browse an online selection of digital clothes and order something you like. Depending on the retailer, you can either send a picture of yourself to a team of 3D designers who will digitally fit the item of clothing on your photo, or you can download and manipulate the files yourself using 3D software, so it’s ready to post online.

Postdigital, in artistic practice, is an attitude that is more concerned with being human, than with being digital. Postdigital is concerned with our rapidly changed and changing relationships with digital technologies and art forms. If one examines the textual paradigm of consensus, one is faced with a choice: either the "postdigital" society has intrinsic meaning, or it is contextualised into a paradigm of consensus that includes art as a totality.

If your product has a specific geographical origin and a reputation - a given quality or other characteristics of a product essentially attributable to it - you can protect it with a geographical indication (GI). Geographical indications protect agricultural products and foodstuffs, spirit drinks, wines, aromatised wines.

Have you ever written a story or a song that was your original creation? Then congratulations – you OWN copyrighted work!

Copyright is a legal right, giving the owner control over their work and how it is used. It gives creators protection against use of their work without permission.

Being private intellectual property, the know-how is a precursor of the intellectual property right. The know-how transfer includes copyrights in itself and its’ legal protection is covered by the trade secrets’ laws.

In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of an original, previously created first work (the underlying work). The derivative work becomes a second, separate work independent in form from the first.

The transformation, modification or adaptation of the work must be substantial and bear its author's personality sufficiently to be original and thus protected by copyright. Translations, cinematic adaptations and musical arrangements are common types of derivative works.

Factory mark is a mark used on ceramics, painted, impressed, moulded, or printed, to indicate the name of the company which produced the piece and sometimes the country of origin. Some marks can include the name of the designer, painter, or modeller. Factory-marks are a useful tool in dating an item, as usually marks were only used at certain times and may include a code to determine the exact year. 

In patent, industrial design rights and trademark laws, a priority right or right of priority is a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent, an industrial design or a trademark respectively.

An industrial design constitutes the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article. A design may consist of three-dimensional features, such as the shape or surface of an article, or of two-dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or color.

Тhe Global Innovation Index (GII) is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation.