Title: Other Types of IP

Learning objectives for this module
- Understand the relationship between copyright and other Intellectual Property.
- Identify where a copyright issue or concern may also involve trademark, patent or industrial design issues
- List the types of Intellectual Property protection in Canada

Definition of "sui generis"
Sui generis is latin for "of its own kind," or "unique." It's also the name of an Argentinian folk-rock band formed in the 1970s.

Q: Which of the following types of IP is not sui generis?
- Industrial Design Protection (correct)
- Plant Variety Protection
- Geographical Indicators
- Database Protection

Q: Trademarks are different from patent and copyrights because trademarks protect reputation, while patents and copyrights:
- Haven’t been heavily exploited by Amazon
- Are an incentive for the distribution of works (correct)
- Are the poor cousins of the IP family
- Only protect the reputations of celebrities

Q: Section 64 of the Copyright Act, which describes the relationship between copyrights and industrial designs, is:
- Clear, well written, concise and engaging
- Allows people to make up to 50,000 copies of an item without implicating industrial design protection concerns
- Allows people to make up to 50 copies of an item without implicating industrial design protection concerns (correct)

Q: Patent and copyright protections and concerns may overlap with regard to:
- Software, specifically business methods embodied in software processes (correct)
- Copying of genetic information
- Protecting dramatic works
- Leather shoes

University of Alberta. 2018. “Other Types of IP.” Opening Up Copyright Instructional Module. https://sites.library.ualberta.ca/copyright/

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Credits: Opening Up Copyright Module: Other Types of IP; by University of Alberta; 2019; licence CC BY 4.0