The main intellectual property rights include: copyright, patents, trademarks and designs. Know-how and trade secrets may also be important elements of intellectual property and need to be protected by confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements and also the law of breach-of-confidence.
The management and licensing of different forms of intellectual property rights is important to businesses all over the world that invent or create products such as the manufacturers, the designers that configure or refine a product’s appearance and the producers of packaging and marketing literature and materials.
