Definition
According to intellect property office(GOV.UK), Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to stop people stealing or copying:
- the names of your products or brands
- your inventions
- the design or look of your products
- things you write, make or produce
Copyright, patents, designs and trade marks are all types of intellectual property protection. Intellectual property is something that you create using your mind – for example, a story, an invention, an artistic work or a symbol.
Copyright
In order to protect my writing about bio-synthetic fur in UK, I send the letter from post office to my own address as a method to prove.
Patent Application
Patent application is not completely the same in different countries, but the main process is quite similar. For my project, I plan to apply in UK, USA and China at first stage. According to the rule of UK government, patent application requires invention new, inventive and either something that can be made and used, a technical process, or a method of doing something. While the patent in China normally will cost 2-3 years for processing. Taking in account to efficiency, I contact agency for application for both Uk and China. The proposal of bio-synthetic fur has already been permitted by IP solicitor in China.