Intellectual property
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The issue of intellectual property is a large area. The Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO (new window) defined the concept of intellectual property as a set of rights relating to:
- literary, artistic and scientific works,
- inventions in all fields of human activity,
- scientific discoveries,
- industrial designs,
- trademarks and service marks, trade names and commercial property description,
- protection against unfair competition.
Intellectual property is divided into two basic categories:
- author's property rights – it is protected by the regulations of copyright and related rights (new window),
- industrial property – it is protected by the regulations of industrial property rights (patent law, trademark law, industrial design law)
Databases, the know-how rights and personal rights are also protected within intellectual property in Poland.