Export Development

How do I register my trademarks?
The applicant

As the first step, you have to send or hand in a duly completed trademark application form, and pay the required fees.

What can be registered as an industrial design?

As a general rule, to be registrable, a design must meet one or more of the following basic requirements, depending
on the national law.

What rights do companies involved in performing, broadcasting and producing
music recordings have?

Over the last 50 years, a new field of rights related to copyright has developed rapidly. These
so-called 'related rights' have grown up around copyrighted works, and provide similar rights, although
often more limited and of shorter duration,
to:

? Performing artists (such as actors and musicians)
in their performances;

What is collective management of copyright
and related rights?

There are many cases where for practical reasons that relate to certain types of use, individual management of rights is virtually impossible. An author is not physically capable of monitoring all uses of his or her works. An author cannot, for instance, contact every single radio or television station to negotiate licences and remuneration. Conversely, it is not practical for a broadcasting organization to seek specific permission from every author each time it wishes to use a copyrighted work.

What is collective management of copyright
and related rights?
There are many cases where for practical reasons that relate to certain types of use, individual management of rights is virtually impossible. An author is not physically capable of monitoring all uses of his or her works. An author cannot, for instance, contact every single radio or television station to negotiate licences and remuneration. Conversely, it is not practical for a broadcasting organization
to seek specific permission from every author each time it wishes to use a copyrighted work.

If I notice violation of my intellectual property rights, what should or can I
do?

The more valuable the IP assets of your enterprise, the greater the possibility that others will want to make use of them, and preferably without having to pay for them. Do you have a strategy to prevent this? If, despite your best efforts, someone is imitating, copying or infringing the IP rights of your company without your authorization, what should you do? What are your options? How do you weigh
up the costs and benefits of various alternatives? Or would you simply rush to court?