Copyright, patent, and trademark are all different types of intellectual property (IP). Although the three types of IP are very different, people often confuse them.

A brief description of copyright, patents, and trademarks, including a brief discussion of how these forms of IP differ from copyright, is provided below.

A trademark is a word or a visual symbol being used by any business to help people distinguish its goods or services from that of the other similar goods or services which may be originating from a different business gets protected.

A trademark application must be filed to register a trademark by the applicant with the relevant Trademark Registrar in the format that has been prescribed. Trademarks are generally used to protect the brand names, business names, slogans and much more.