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Patent: Protect inventions and improvements to existing inventions, giving the patent holder the exclusive right to make, use, sell, and import the invention for a limited period, typically 20 years from the filing date.

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Copyrights: Protect original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, but it may protect the way these are expressed.

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Trademarks: Protect words, phrases, symbols, and designs identifying and distinguishing the source of the goods or services of one party from those of others. Trademarks can be renewed indefinitely as long as they are in use.

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Trade Secrets: Consist of information, including formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information, that have inherent economic value because they are not generally known or readily ascertainable and are subject to efforts to maintain their secrecy.

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Industrial Designs: Protect the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the creation of a shape, configuration, or composition of pattern or color, or combination of pattern and color in three-dimensional form containing aesthetic value. An industrial design can be a two- or three-dimensional pattern used to produce a product, industrial commodity, or handicraft.

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Geographical Indication:  Indicate products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities, reputation, or characteristics that are essentially attributable to that place of origin, including agricultural products, foodstuffs, wine, and spirit drinks.