PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

WEEK 11

DR. GHULAM MUSTAFA

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCES

BAHRIA UNIVERSITY LAHORE CAMPUS

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INSTRUCTOR CONTACT DETAILS

 Name: Dr. Ghulam Mustafa

 PhD Computer Science (UK)
 Course Instructor: CSC307- Professional Practices
 Credit Hours: 3
 Designation : Assistant Professor
 Email: gmustafa.bulc@bahria.edu.pk ghulammustafa4@acm.org

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TODAY’S OUTLINE

 Intellectual Property
 Patents, Trademarks and
Copyrights

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TYPES OF PROPERTY

 Real
 Land
 Personal
 Cars, jewelry, clothing
 Easements
 Non-corporal interest in real property
 Railroads, utilities

 Intellectual
 Patents, copyrights and trademarks
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PATENTS

 Grant of a property right to the inventor

 Issued by the Patent and Trademark Office
 Term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the
application for the patent was filed in the United States

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PATENTABILITY
(WHAT MAY BE PATENTED?)

 Statute says, "any person who invents any

new and useful process, machine,
manufacture, or composition of matter,
or any new and useful improvement
thereof"

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CONDITIONS OF PATENTABILITY

 Utility
 subject matter has a useful purpose and also includes operativeness
 Invention must "work" to be useful
 Novelty
 Must not be known or used by others in this country
 Or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country

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PATENT APPLICATION

 Application = written document which comprises a specification (description

and claims), and an oath or declaration
 Drawing or reduction to practice
 Filing fee
 Filing date of an application for patent determines priority (first to file wins!!)

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 PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATION

 Designed to provide a lower cost first patent filing in the United States
 Establish an early effective filing date in a patent application
 Permits the term “Patent Pending”
 Applicant would then have up to twelve months to file a non-provisional
application for patent

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TRADEMARKS / SERVICEMARKS

 Word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate
the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others
 Servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and
distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product

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TRADEMARKS

 Used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark

 Not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same
goods or services under a clearly different mark
 May be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office

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 TRADEMARK REGISTRATION

 Trademark rights established by:

 First to use the "mark"
 First to file application with PTO
 Federal registration not required but has advantages
 Registered owner can use mark nationwide
 Registration granted for 10 years
 renewable for another 10

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 COPYRIGHTS

 Protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the
writing
 Copyrights are registered by the Copyright Office of the Library of
Congress
 Duration is life + 70 years
 Title 17 U.S. Code

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COPYRIGHTS

 Form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of

authorship"
 Including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual
works, both published and unpublished
 Gives author and authorized other exclusive rights

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 COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

Author and Agent have exclusive rights to:

1. Reproduce the copyrighted work
2. Prepare derivative works
3. Distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work,
4. Perform the copyrighted work publicly
1. Includes digital audio transmission (Napster)

5. Display the copyrighted work publicly

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 SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

 Literary works
 Musical works  Choreography
 Including lyrics  Motion pictures
 Dramatic works  Pictorial, graphic,
 Including music sculptoral works
 Pantomines  Sound recordings

 MP-3 Music (Napster)  Architectural works

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 SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

 Must be "fixed in a tangible medium of expression" to be protected.

 Not protected:
 Unrecorded choreography
 Slogans, short names, titles, familiar symbols
 Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, principles
 Information that is "common property"
 Calendars, rulers, tape measures, public lists

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COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION

 Registration not require to secure copyright

 Since 1978 Copyright protection is obtained
automatically when the work is created, fixed in
tangible medium of expression and published
(distribution in public domain)
 Gives right to defend copyright
 Copyright registration has advantages

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SUMMARY

 Today we have learnt

 BCS Codes of Ethics
 Organizational Structure

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 REFERENCES

 These lecture notes were taken from following source:

 Professional Issues in Software Engineering M.F. Bott et al. Latest edition
 Computer Ethics, Deborah G. Johnson, Pearson Education (2009) 4th edition

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