Intellectual Property
- Patents
 - Copyrights
 - Trade Marks
 - Trade Secrets
 - Industrial Designs
 - Plant Varieties
 - Traditional Knowledge
 
Patents
- Subject Matter – Invention
 - Useful
 - Novel
 - Non-Obvious
 - Term: 20 Years
 - Rights: Make, Use, Sell, Offer for Sale, and Import.
 
Copyrights
- Subject Matter: Expressions
 - Original
 - Creative
 - Literary, Dramatic, Artistic, Photographic, Sound Recording, and Cinematographic Works
 - Term: Life Plus 60 Years
 - Rights: Reproduce, Adapt, Distribute, Communicate to Public, Public Performance, Public Display …
 
Trade Marks
- Subject Matter: Representations
 - Inherently Distinctive
 - Acquired Distinctiveness
 - Term: Perpetual
 - Right: Use
 - Types: Fanciful, Arbitrary, Suggestive, Descriptive, and Generic
 
Designs
- Subject Matter: Aesthetic Product Designs
 - Original
 - Distinctive
 - Not Published
 - Term: 15 Years
 - Rights: Sell, Publish and Import
 
Trade Secrets
- Subject Matter: Any Information
 - Independent Economic Value
 - Not Known to others
 - Reasonable Measures
 - Term: Perpetual
 - Right: Maintain Confidentiality
 
LICENSE
- What is being licensed?
 - For how long?
 - In which territory?
 - What type of license?
 - What rights?
 - For what or how much?
 
BananaIP (BIP) Counsels, formerly Brain League IP Services is a renowned, premier intellectual property (IP) firm in India. The firm started out of IIM-B in 2004 as Brain League IP Services, and was re-structured as BananaIP in 2014.
You can contact us at contact@bananaip.com.