No, you cannot patent an idea or concept. You can only patent an invention, which may be one way to USE the concept or idea.
Copyright provides no protection at all for any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery..." 17 USC § 102(b).
The best way to protect a raw idea (not yet an invention) is by keeping it confidential, such as a trade secret.
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Goodwill is an ineffable idea protected by trademark, and trademarks can be transferred.
Yes; patents and copyrights are temporary monopolies.
Patents and copyrights protect a person's works and ideas. Copyrights basically are a claim on the idea/work you have created, so long as it hasn't been taken. However, you will want to file a patent because it is a bit more official and doesn't have a time limit, unlike the copyright. Neither copyright nor patents protect the idea. Copyrights protect the expression of the idea and patents protect the method or implementation of an idea or process. So the idea of a wizard school where young students learn about magic is not protected by copyright but the specific characters and features created by a specific author are protected. With patents it is similar. The idea of a water purifier cannot be patented. But a specific working method for purifying water can be patented.
Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents are examples of Intellectual Property.
No ideas are not necessarily under copyright law. If you publish it on the web, a book, and/or record it, the copyright is yours but the "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" you have described is free of any copyright. Some ideas can be protected to the limited extent that they are implemented in a patented invention. Other ideas are protected merely by keeping them secret.
For medicines they are called patents.
patents and copyrights
Pepsi likely holds many copyrights, for jingles, advertisements, commercials, etc. The Pepsi logo and similar indicia are protected by trademark, and the formula is almost certainly protected as a trade secret. All of these are forms of intellectual property.
Creators of original works are protected.
In the most basic terms, patents protect inventions, and copyright protects creative works.
It means you have the exclusive rights to a variety of assets - ranging from pieces of music, published literary works, designs and logos. These are to be protected with copyrights, trademarks and even patents.