Intellectual property rights for designers, planners, and companies

Design has emerged as an issue in the area of intellectual property. This raises the question of what and how we should to do protect our own designs? The book introduces the concepts needed in design practices—such as design rights, patent rights and utility model rights, trademark rights, copyrights, and other major intellectual property rights. The book also offers actual disputed cases regarding intellectual property rights, and presents legal countermeasures and standards for those cases by presenting situations that could be encountered anytime. In essence, it provides must-know content without using difficult legal terms or academic sentences. Nevertheless, the contents of laws, which must be learned, have been set aside as an appendix. It also carries standard contract templates in the design field so that they can be used directly in practice. The book is a useful field guide for designers, design planners, and marketers.