Identification of Intellectual Property (“Intellectual Property”)

Intellectual property shall consist of the following:

1. Copyrightable material produced from creative and scholarly activity, such as text (manuscripts, manuals, books, and articles); videos and motion pictures; music (sound recordings, lyrics, and scores); images (print, photographic, and electronic); works of art; and computer software (programs, databases, web pages, and courseware);
2. Patentable works such as patents (processes, machines, manufactures, or compositions of matter); devices; and software excluded from copyrighted materials;
3. Trademarked materials, such as words, names, symbols or logos, domain names, trade dress, and slogans or any combination of words which has been adopted by the College to identify itself and to distinguish itself and its sponsorship from others; and
4. Trade Secrets.

   Intellectual Property rights, like other forms of rights, can be held by one person or by many.Also, there are different kinds of rights to each work (such as the right to distribute and the right to receive royalties) and different persons or entities can hold different rights.