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7.6
Use and Protection of Intellectual Property
Principle
SCG regards intellectual property as valuable assets to SCG. Employees must strictly follow established ‘SCG Intellectual Property (IP) Policy’ and protect SCG’s intellectual property from unauthorized use or disclosure and must respect and not infringe other people’s intellectual properties.
Guidelines
1. Employees must protect SCG’s intellectual property from infringement, disclosure, reproduction, modification or any other actions not permitted by SCG.
2. All employees at SCG must respect and avoid violating the intellectual property rights of others. Examine the rights to information kept at or brought to SCG that belongs to outside persons.
3. Thetermsofcontractsorlegaldocuments concerning rights to intellectual property should be clear. When uncertain or in doubt, you should consult an expert in intellectual property at SCG or SCG’s legal consultant.
4. Cooperate on claiming ownership or requesting protection of intellectual property for SCG’s intellectual property.
5. Employees are obliged to report to a superior or the Intellectual Property Manager when they observe any actions that they believe to be, or will lead to, a violation of or conflict over SCG’s intellectual property rights.
Definitions
Intellectual Property
refers to work resulting from invention, creation or formation by human beings.
Patent
refers to documents issued by government to protect invention or design of products as invention patent, product design patent and petty patent.
Copyright
refers to literature, performance, arts, music, audio-visual materials, movie, audio records, audio and visual broadcast such as computer program, paintings, photograph and articles etc.
Trademark
refers to marks or symbols or logos used with products or services such as trademarks, service marks, certification marks and collective marks.
Trade Secrets
refer to trade information that in unknown to public and is commercially valuable since it is secret. They must be appropriately handled to keep them secret.