Difference among patent, trademarks and copyrights:
Trademarks, patents and copyrights offer protection for owners of intellectual property.
Patent: A patent protects an invention and innovations or improvements thereon by providing the inventor with a set of exclusive rights which prevent others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention without the consent of the inventor. An idea in itself cannot be patented. The idea must be materialized into an invention, innovative product, device or process that offers new solutions to a problem in order for the registrant to be able to seek the patent. Patents protect products in the fields of machinery, manufacturing, composition of matter (a combination of chemicals), and processes (methods of manufacturing).
Trademark: A trademark protects an owner’s right to exclusively use images, logos, phrases or words used to distinguish a particular good or service in the market.
Copyrights: Copyrights protect works of authorship and cover: a) works of art (2 or 3 dimensional), b) photos, pictures, graphic designs, drawings and other forms of images; c) songs, music and sound recordings of all kinds; d) books, manuscripts, publications and other written works; and e) plays, movies, shows, and other performance arts.
