ANNEX I: Glossary
Intellectual property: 7 rights relating to creations of the human mind, in particular:
• literary, artistic and scientific works,
• performances of performing artists, phonograms, and broadcasts,
• inventions in all fields of human endeavor,
• scientific discoveries,
• industrial designs,
• trademarks, service marks, and commercial names and designations, and
• protection against unfair competition and all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in
the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.
Intellectual property may be divided into:
1. Industrial property: a set of rights that includes trade marks, service marks, invention
patents, utility models, industrial designs, trade names and establishment emblems, logotypes,
geographical indications, appellations of origin and awards.
2. Copyright: a set of rights that includes literary and artistic works such as stories, poems and
plays, films, musical works, painted works of art, photographs and sculptures, and architectural
drawings. Rights related to copyright include the rights of performers to their performances, the
rights of the producers of phonograms to their recordings and the rights of broadcasting
organizations to their radio and television programs.
Patent: title granted for the protection of an invention.
Invention: an idea that makes it possible, in practice, to solve a particular technical problem. An
invention may be a product or a process, or it may even consist simultaneously of both a product
and a process.
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We have adopted the definition of intellectual property given in Article 2(viii) of the Stockholm
Convention of 1967, which set up the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).