INFORMATİON TECHNOLOGİES

A patent can be defined as a right granted for an invention, which is a product or process that is used as a new solution or approach for a technical problem arising in industry. So, replicability is not a general condition of an invention to be patentable.

Since the information regarded as a commodity, intellectual property rights refer to the legal rights given to the inventor or creator to protect and fully benefit from his/her own work or investment in a certain period of time. Also, countries have laws to protect and promote the intellectual property because of its contribution to economic and social improvements.

A trademark is a sign, or a combination of signs, that is used to distinguish product or service of a company from those of another. Trademarks perform four main functions: