Personal Development
Intellectual Property
- is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical, literary, and artistic works; inventions; and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, and related rights. Under intellectual property law, the holder of one of these abstract “properties” has certain exclusive rights to the creative work, commercial symbol, or invention by which it is covered.
Goal
- To develop a secure network for students to be informed and educated on how to protect their work, and temporarily be set up with a PPO.
- Add to the curriculum the Importance of Design Ethics, and awareness of these principles that are placed in the professional world.
Purpose
- Intellectual property rights give creators exclusive rights to their creations, thereby providing an incentive for the author or inventor to develop and share the information rather than keep it secret. The legal protections granted by IP laws are credited with significant contributions toward economic growth.
- Economists estimate that two-thirds of the value of large businesses in the U.S. can be traced to intangible assets. Likewise, industries which rely on IP protections are estimated to produce 72 percent more value per added employee than non-IP industries.
Visual Differentiation
- Karen Moyer’s “non-exhaustive” list of elements that can visually differentiate one object from another. They are elements because they seldom work alone: you usually use at least two together (a visual molecule).
- Proportion
- Shape
- Structure
- Size
- texture
- position
- orientation
