What’s on the Intellectual Property poster
A 5-row table: Right · Protects · Term.
General principles; terms and rules vary by jurisdiction.
- Copyright — Expression: text, code, images — Life + 70 years, typically
- Trade mark — Brand names, logos — 10 years, renewable
- Patent — Inventions, technical solutions — 20 years
- Design right — Appearance — Up to 25 years
- Trade secret — Confidential information — While it stays secret
Public disclosure before filing can destroy patentability. Do not publish or demonstrate before you have filed.
Questions about the Intellectual Property poster
- What’s on the Intellectual Property poster?
- A 5-row table: Right · Protects · Term. General principles; terms and rules vary by jurisdiction. Copyright — Expression: text, code, images — Life + 70 years, typically; Trade mark — Brand names, logos — 10 years, renewable; Patent — Inventions, technical solutions — 20 years; Design right — Appearance — Up to 25 years; Trade secret — Confidential information — While it stays secret. Public disclosure before filing can destroy patentability. Do not publish or demonstrate before you have filed.
- Who is the Intellectual Property poster for?
- Intellectual Property belongs to the Business & Management section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning entrepreneurship can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Intellectual Property poster?
- Copyright is automatic. Everything else must be applied for, and most have deadlines. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Intellectual Property belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Intellectual Property?
- The Business Plan, Cap Tables & Dilution and Legal Structures sit alongside Intellectual Property in the Business & Management section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Business PlanCap Tables & DilutionLegal Structures
- Is the Intellectual Property poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Intellectual Property downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Business & Management section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Intellectual Property poster print at?
- Intellectual Property is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Intellectual Property loses nothing.Printing guide
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