Any or all of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights or any subdivision of those rights may be transferred, but the transfer of exclusive rights is not valid unless that transfer is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner’s duly authorized agent.
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About Private Limited Companies
Company registration is a two step procedure: 1) Availability of Name: First step towards incorporation of a Company is to obtain availability of name from the Company Registration Office. 2) Application for incorporation: An applicant subject to grant of availability of name can make an application either online or in physical form to the Company Registration Office for incorporation of company along with the following documents – a) Copy of the valid name reservation letter / email. b) Form 1 (Declaration of applicant for incorporation) c) Form 21 (Notice of situation of registered office of proposed company). d) Form 29 (Particulars of the first directors of the company). e) Memorandum and Articles of Association; f) Copies of CNIC/NICOP/POC of the subscribers/witness/ Nominee (in case of single member company)/Copy of Passport in case of foreigner; g) Original challan evidencing payment of registration and filing fee; h) Following documents may also be required on a case to case basis: (i) In case of physical filing, authority letter signed by all the subscribers in favor of one of them or authorized representative; and (ii) In case of specialized business, copy of NOC/Letter of Intent/ License (if any) of the relevant regulatory authority.
Yes, you can reserve the name of Company of your choice unless the name of Company is not such that which is prohibited under the law (Section 37 of the Companies’ Ordinance, 1984). There are certain prohibitions and restrictions, the applicant has to look into while choosing a name for a company. In this regard, it must be ensured that the name chosen for the proposed company is neither inappropriate, deceptive or designed to exploit or offend the religious susceptibilities of the people, nor identical or closely resembling with the name of an existing company. You may refer to availability of name Guide available on our website https://www.secp.gov.pk/document/name-availability-guide/?wpdmdl=22230. Further, you may avail the name search availability through our eServices Portal https://eservices.secp.gov.pk/eServices/NameSearch.jsp
a) Annual return in Form A and Form 29 b) Annual audited accounts in case of private companies having paid-up capital of Rs. 7.5 million or above.
Yes. You have to make an application to the Company. The Company after making such inquiry as it may deem fit shall subject to such terms and conditions, if any, issue the duplicate share certificates. (Section 75 of the of the Companies Ordinance, 1984)
Yes, you may close down your Company subject to certain terms and condition as mentioned under the Company Easy Exit Scheme Regulations, 2014 by filing an application with the concerned Registrar. The Registrar after confirming compliance with the formalities, may strike off the Company under Section 439 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984.
For Individual (Pakistani National): CNIC/NICOP/POC, Mobile number, & Email address. For Individual (Foreign National): Attested copy of valid passport, Attested photograph, Mobile number, & Email address.
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About Trademarks
Prescribed application form TM-1/TM-2 8 clear reproductions of the sign, logo or Trademark, of any color, form or 3-dimensional features. List of goods or services to which the Trademark would apply. Power of Attorney if applied through an advocate / Agent. Pay Order / Bank Draft of prescribed fee for TM-1/TM-2 i.e. Rs. 3,000 in the name of Director General, IPO-Pakistan.(for updated fee structure visit “Fee & Forms” section) The bank may ask for FTN of IPO-Pakistan which is 9010120-7
Initially Trademark is registered for 10 (Ten) years from the filing date. The Trademarks registration can be renewed after every 10 (Ten) years.
The applicant is required to submit a reply within two months of the issue of Show Cause Notice.If there are no objections application is published in the Trade Mark Journal. If no oppositions are filed to the published application within two months of the publication date of the relevant Trademark Journal, the application stands accepted, and Demand Notice is then issued to the applicant requesting him/her to submit registration fee so that the registration Certificate may be issued.On the receipt of the Registration fee, the Registration Certificate is issued.
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About Copyrights
Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. The owner of copyright has the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords; To prepare derivative works based upon the work; To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works; To display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and In the case of sound recordings*, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission. It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided by the copyright law to the owner of copyright. These rights, however, are not unlimited in scope, the copyright law establishes limitations on these rights. In some cases, these limitations are specified exemptions from copyright liability. One major limitation is of “fair use,” In other instances, the limitation takes the form of a “compulsory license” under which certain limited uses of copyrighted works are permitted upon payment of specified royalties and compliance with statutory conditions. For further information about the limitations of any of these rights, consult the copyright law
Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright. In the case of a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; the employer and not the employee is considered to be the author, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. The authors of a joint work are co-owners of the copyright in the work, unless there is an agreement to the contrary. Note: Ownership of a book, manuscript, painting, or any other copy or phonorecord does not give the possessor the copyright. The transfer of ownership of any material object that embodies a protected work does not of itself convey any rights in the copyright.
Copyright protects “original works of authorship” that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories: literary works; musical works, including any accompanying words dramatic works, including any accompanying music pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works\ motion pictures and other audiovisual works sound recordings architectural works These categories should be viewed broadly. For example, computer programs and most “compilations” may be registered as “literary works”.
According to Patents Ordinance 2000, invention is any new & useful product, including chemical products, art, process, method or manner of manufacture, machine, apparatus or other articles in any field of technology and includes any new and useful improvement of any of them is an alleged invention.
Several categories of material are generally not eligible for copyright protection. These include among others: Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources) The following shall not be regarded as invention within the meaning of sub-section (1), namely:- a) A discovery, scientific theory or mathematical method; b) A literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other creation of purely aesthetic character whatsoever; c) A scheme, rule or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or doing business; d) The presentation of information; and e) Substances that exist in nature or if isolated there from.
Copyright Secured Automatically upon Creation The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood, registration is not compulsory to secure copyright. There are, however, certain definite advantages to registration. Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is “created” when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. “Copies” are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. “Phonorecords” are material objects embodying fixations of such as cassette tapes, CDs, or LPs. Thus, for example, a song (the “work”) can be fixed in sheet music (“copies”) or in phonograph disks (“phonorecords”), or both. If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date.
A work that was created (fixed in tangible form for the first time) protected from the moment of its creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author’s life plus an additional 50 years after the author’s death. In the case of “a joint work prepared by two or more authors who did not work for hire,” the term lasts for 50 years after the last surviving author’s death. For works made for hire, and for anonymous and pseudonymous works the duration of copyright will be 50 years from publication.
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About Patents
A patent for an invention is grant of exclusive rights to make, use and sell the invention for a limited period of 20 years. The patent grant excludes others from making, using, or selling the invention. Patent protection does not start until the actual grant of a patent. A patent cannot be obtained on a mere idea or suggestion. Patent applications are examined for both technical and legal merit.
The basic theory of the patent system is simple and reasonable. It is desirable in the public interest that industrial techniques should be improved. In order to encourage improvement and to encourage also the disclosure of improvements in preference to their use in secret. Any person devising any improvement in a manufactured article or in machinery or methods for making it, may upon disclosure of his improvement at the Patent Office demand to be given a monopoly in the use of it for a limited period. After that period, it passes into the public domain.
A patent owner has the right to decide who may or may not use the patented invention for the period in which the invention is protected. The patent owner may give permission to, or license, other parties to use the invention on mutually agreed terms. The owner may also sell the right to the invention to someone else, who will then become the new owner of the patent. Once a patent expires, the protection ends, and invention enters the public domain, that is, the owner no longer holds exclusive right to the invention, which becomes available to commercial exploitation by others.
According to Patents Ordinance 2000, invention is any new & useful product, including chemical products, art, process, method or manner of manufacture, machine, apparatus or other articles in any field of technology and includes any new and useful improvement of any of them is an alleged invention.
Any invention, whether a product or process, in all fields of technology, is Patentable provided the invention meets the substantive criteria for patentability – namely, novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. The following shall not be regarded as invention within the meaning of sub-section (1), namely:- a) A discovery, scientific theory or mathematical method; b) A literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other creation of purely aesthetic character whatsoever; c) A scheme, rule or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or doing business; d) The presentation of information; and e) Substances that exist in nature or if isolated there from.
There are specific exclusions to Patentability under section 7 of Patents Ordinance 2000 (as -amended in 2002 and 2006) which may be generally summarized as follows: • Inventions the prevention of whose commercial exploitation is necessary to protect order public (public order) or morality, including to protect animal or plant life or health; • Inventions that are of an intellectual, abstract or aesthetic character (including discoveries, artistic works, computer software and methods for doing business); • Diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods for the treatment of humans or animals; and certain biotechnology-based inventions. • For a new or subsequent use of known product or process. • For a mere physical change in the appearance of a chemical product where the chemical formula or process of manufacturer remains the same.
Any of the following persons are entitled to make an application for Patent, Whether alone or jointly with any other person, may make an application for a Patent, namely:- (a) The true and the first inventor or inventors of the invention or his or, as the case may be, their assignee or successor -in -interest; and (b) The legal representative of any deceased person who immediately before his death was entitled to make such application.