The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to intellectual property:
Intellectual property refers to intangible assets such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions, trade secrets. These may be sometimes called intellectual rights.
See outline of patents for a topical guide and overview of patents.
Types Some examples of intellectual property include:
Artistic work Literature Music Painting Sculpture Computer program Indigenous intellectual property Internet domain name Invention Sound recording (or phonogram) Trademark Service mark Trade secret
Rights Authors' rights Copyright Database right Industrial design rights (or registered designs) Intellectual rights to magic methods Moral rights Passing off Patents Personality rights Related rights Plant breeders' rights Trade dress
Law
Fashion law Integrated circuit layout design protection Plant variety protection Supplementary protection certificate
Copyright Berne Convention Copyright Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution History of copyright law Moral rights Philosophy of copyright Sound recording copyright Statute of Anne
Patents Patents History of patent law Biological patent Software patent Utility model
Procedures Patent application Patent infringement and enforcement Patent licensing Patent prosecution
Legal requirements Patentable subject matter Novelty Utility (patent) Inventive step and non-obviousness Industrial applicability Person having ordinary skill in the art Prior art Inventorship Sufficiency of disclosure Unity of invention
By region or country
Australian patent law Canadian patent law Patent law of China European patent law Japanese patent law United States patent law
Trademarks Geographical indication Protected designation of origin Trade dress Trademark (including service marks)
General topics Anti-copyright Arrow information paradox Background, foreground, sideground and postground intellectual property Copyright for Creativity Copyright infringement Copyfraud Industrial espionage File sharing Music piracy Patent troll Plagiarism Scams in intellectual property Digital rights management Exhaustion of intellectual property rights Exhaustion doctrine under U.S. law First-sale doctrine Free culture movement Free software movement Free content Intangible asset Intellectual capital Intellectual rights Intellectual property brokering Intellectual property education Intellectual property infringement Intellectual property valuation IPR-Helpdesk Legal aspects of computing License Public copyright license All rights reserved All rights reversed Anti-copyright notice Copyleft Free license Share-alike Limitations and exceptions to copyright Fair dealing Fair use Freedom of panorama Right to quote List of intellectual property law journals Orphan works Public domain Reverse engineering Societal views on intellectual property Societal views on patents Soft intellectual property, a term sometimes used to refer to trademarks, copyright, and design rights
Legal agreements and government enforcement Adelphi Charter Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) China International Copyright Expo Doha Declaration EU Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights French Intellectual Property Code Intellectual property issues in cultural heritage (IPinCH) Intellectual property organization (including a list of intellectual property organizations) Intellectual property protection in consumer electronics industry International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Plant Variety Protection Act (U.S.) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) World Intellectual Property Day (April 26)
See also Entertainment law Mimi & Eunice, a comic strip about intellectual property problems