ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT

PREPARATION AND
MANAGEMENT SBA
ASSIGNMENT 2

DATE:31st January, 2025

Candidates name: Syesha Carew

Candidate Number:

Centre Name: Mackenzie High School

Centre Number:090032

Territory: Guyana

Teacher’s Name: Miss Carleta

Thompson

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Contents
Introduction 3

Intellectual Property 4

Intellectual Property Loss Protected Rights 4

Types of Intellectual property 5

Plagiarism 7

Guidelines to Prevent Plagiarism 7

Bibliography 8

Appendix 9

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 Introduction

The researcher was given a task based on intellectual property and plagiarism to complete.

This document will teach you about intellectual property, its right and types. It will give you a

better understanding on what plagiarism is and teach you how to prevent it. A number of

guidelines will be given to ensure that you have an understanding on plagiarism and not

commit it in the future.

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What is intellectual property?

Intellectual property (IP) refers to the creations of human, such as inventions, literary and

artistic works, designs, etc. It also includes intangible creation of the human intellect for

example your ideas. Intellectual property rights can be used to protect assets and for

branding.

Here are three rights that are protected by intellectual property loss:

1. Patent
A patent provides the patent owner with the right to decide whether or not the
invention can be used by others and how can it be used. In order to get this right, the
technical information about the invention has to be displayed publicly available in the
published patent document by the patent owner.

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2. Trademark
A trademark is a recognizable design, sign, or expression that makes it easy to identify
certain goods or services that are provided or produced by a specific individual or a
company. For example, Royal Castle, adidas, Nike, and Samsung logos are all
trademark used to identify the product.

3. Copyrights
Copyright is the legal term used by creators to describe the right they have over their
work. Some creations that have copyright are books, music, painting, films, maps,
technical drawings just to name a few. To avoid any problems with creators, persons
when using music they do not own often mention that do not own any copyright to the
music being played in backgrounds.

4. Industrial designs
Industrial design refers to the appearance of a product and may consist of tree-
dimensional features, such as the shape or surface of a product or two-dimensional
features, such as patterns, lines or colours. These features are used to distinguish the
product from others that are in the same category. These features also give the product
a more attractive and appealing look that often draws the eyes of customers making
them wanting to buy. Industrial designs apply to watches, vehicles, textile designs,
etc.
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Types of Intellectual Property
i. Patent
a. A patent provides the patent owner with the right to decide whether or not the
invention can be used by others and how can it be used
ii. Trademark
a. A trademark is a recognizable design, sign, or expression that makes it easy to
identify certain goods or services that are provided or produced by a specific
individual or a company. For example, Royal Castle, adidas, Nike, and
Samsung logos are all trademark used to identify the product.

iii. Copyrights
a. Copyright is the legal term used by creators to describe the right they have
over their work.
iv. Industrial designs
a. Industrial design refers to the appearance of a product and may consist of tree-
dimensional features, such as the shape or surface of a product or two-
dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or colours. These features are
used to distinguish the product from others that are in the same category.
These features also give the product a more attractive and appealing look that
often draws the eyes of customers making them wanting to buy. Industrial
designs apply to watches, vehicles, textile designs, etc.

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 Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is when another person uses someone else’s work as their own without
giving the original owner credit for their work or citing the source. For example,
including a direct quote without quotation marks.

Here are some guidelines to prevent plagiarism:

1. Paraphrase- this is rewriting a source’s information into your own words.
When paraphrasing information, try to use different phrases or words from the
source.
2. Quotations
Inserting your sources words into quotation marks will indicate that the
information said did not belong to you/weren’t originally yours.
3. Citing your source- this is giving the full name of your source, the date the
information was published and any other information that would give the
source credit for their work. Using a bibliography is a way of citing your
source (giving credit to the original owner).

After concluding the last guideline on plagiarism, the researcher realised that they had to cite
their source of these information to avoid plagiarism.

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Bibliography
George, T. (2022, July 15). Examples of Plagiarism & tips for Avoiding It.

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Appendix