Intellectual and industrial property include patents for inventions, patents for utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, copyrights, and all of them need to be protected from infringements and misuse. A huge variety of fulfillments are connected to the defense of the above matters, i.e. national and international applications, warnings, agreements and licences, etc.
The main differences between the single property rights are connected to three different points of view, that is: what is protectable, what are the main patentability requirements and the term of the protection.
In case of patents for inventions and utility models for instance, the main patentability requirements are novelty and non-obviousness, whereas industrial designs need novelty of the form in the specific class of products and individualizing character of the form and trademarks require distinctive power and novelty vis-a-vis the trade marks relevant to similar products (the previous use of the owner is not harmful to the novelty).
Advising on intellectual property requires a specific knowledge of the matter and the daily practice we have.