Copyright - The intangible property right granted by statute for an original work fixed in a tangible means of expression. Copyright comes into existence immediately at the time the work is fixed in a tangible means of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Creator - Refers to an individual or group of individuals who make, conceive, reduce to practice, or otherwise make a substantive intellectual contribution to the creation of intellectual property. The intangible value developed by human creativity that is protected by the legal mechanisms of patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks, trade secrets, mask works, and plant variety protection certificates.
Rights derived from legislation include ownership and disposition, including commercialization.
It also includes the physical embodiments of intellectual effort such as models, machines, devices, designs, apparatus, instrumentation, circuits, computer programs and visualizations, biological materials, chemicals, other compositions or matter, plants, and records of research. Invention - any discovery which is or may be patentable or which may be commercially licensable . License - A contract in which an intellectual property owner grants permission to exercise one or more of the rights that an owner holds. In order to obtain patent protection, an invention must be useful, novel and unobvious. Tangible research property is distinct from intangible properties such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks, trade secrets, mask works, and plant variety protection certificates.