Trademarks, Patents, and Copyrights are all different forms of
intellectual property rights; rights given to entities to protect
their innovations. Such rights provide peace of mind to creators to
ensure that such bodies of work will not be used by other entities.
These three different types of intellectual property offer
different forms of protection.
Trademarks
Trademarks protect the name of the registered creative by
preventing other entities from using the same name. Through it,
consumers would be aware that the owner is the source of the good
or service they are looking for. This is crucial to traders as it
prevents all products on the market from being homogenous in the
consumer's eye. Any sign, graphic, word or other form of design
element which represents a company or a product can be trademarked.
Chapter 416 of the Laws of Malta is the legal instrument relating
to trademarks and it defines a trademark as "any sign
capable of being represented graphically
