Intellectual Property Rights

 

          On April 8, 2022, when we felt the heat of the sun, it was the same as the heartwarming welcome to Dr. Dumangcas by the future young entrepreneurs in the lecture series. She shared her knowledge of intellectual property rights and the students and even the teachers were astonished by the topic. It takes a long time before the lecture series begins. However, the topic was very interesting to learn about.

Intellectual property rights are about the authority granted to individuals over their creation of minds. It usually grants the creators exclusive rights to their creation for a set period of time. Patents, trade marks, and copyrights, as well as the law surrounding these protections, are all intended to encourage innovation and creativity and are essential to the practice of intellectual property law in order to prevent illegal activities. 

I learned a lot about how to protect our intellectual property to set our future business apart from competitors who want to use our particular assets like brand names, inventions, designs, and more. This will help us protect our reputations from damages. These rights should be taught, especially to young individuals who want to start a business to protect their rights, or else the business will put them at a huge risk of losing the exclusive rights. 

As a student, this is a good opportunity to expand my knowledge when I want to start a business. Dr. Dumangas gave her time to help us be aware and learn more about how we can secure our rights of our business and ideas in the future. She gave us a clear discussion about the types of IP rights and the terms of protection. In the future, my knowledge will be used to protect the rights of my business.