What is the difference between a trademark, copyright and patent?

Besides the fact, both trademarks, patents, and copyrights offer protection for owners of intellectual property. The main difference is, the trademark protects the rights to exclusively use the image, logo, phrases, or words to distinguish the goods or a service in the market.

Thus, copyright is known to protect, per example, artistic or musical published, performed, or printed creative works from someone copying what they do. Copyright protection protects any original creative works of authors including:

- Artwork (2 or 3 dimensional),

- Photographs, graphic drawings, and designs as well as other forms of creativity;

- Songs, music, and sound recordings of all kinds;

- Books, manuscripts, publications, and another written work; and

- Plays, movies, shows, and other performance arts.

Meanwhile, a patent safeguards tangible invention, innovative product, device, or process that offers new solutions to a problem, giving the creator or inventor exclusive rights that prevent other people from making, using, or profiting in any way from an invention or creative innovation without the consent of the inventor.