Creations of the Mind and the Rights to Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks

Intellectual property rights
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Question: A COMPANY HAS COMMISSIONED A DESIGNER TO CREATE ITS LOGO. WHAT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SHOULD THE COMPANY SECURE IN ORDER TO USE THIS LOGO TO DISTINGUISH ITSELF ON THE MARKET?
Creations of the mind such as computer programs, works of art, inventions, trademarks, and other commercial signs constitute intellectual property (IP). The range of IP covers makes it a crucial feature in cultural and economic life. This importance confers rights to intellectual property, and the law recognizes this to the latter. Given the many types of IP, different laws protecting each exist, complicating IP law.
Industrial property includes patents for different inventions, designs, and trademarks. The examples mentioned above make up the first category of IP, with the second category, the copyright and related rights covering the literary, artistic, and scientific works (Sreeragi, 2021).IP rights such as copyright, patents, and trademarks pass as other property rights. The rights to copyright, patents, and trademarks enable their owners or creators to benefit from their work by giving them control over how the public uses them.
A company outsourcing the services of logo creation has to buy rights of the logo to use it as its own in distinguishing itself on the market. According ...