Intellectual Property (IP) Awareness In Protecting University Research Product In Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

Zakaria, Nor Shahida (2014) Intellectual Property (IP) Awareness In Protecting University Research Product In Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This study focuses on the awareness of IP protection of the university research product in the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. This research identifies the awareness of the researchers in protecting their university research product, to examine the suitable ways in protecting the university research product, and to investigate the difficulties faced by the researcher in protecting their research product. In addition, the significance of this study is to create the awareness to the university and researcher about the importance in protecting university research product. The primary data was collected using the qualitative methodology and exploratory study. For the qualitative methodology, the data was collected by conducting the interview session with five academicians in UTeM to get more understanding and get depth insight for the finding of this research. Lacks of awareness of IP protection in protecting research products become a problem for researchers in UTeM to protect their research products. The researchers in the university should aware of the importance of IP protection and also understand the function of IP protection so they can protect their product from being imitated by others. In addition, there have few types of IP are used to protect research products likes patent, copyright, utility innovation and other types of IP. While, the difficulties faced in protecting research products such as lack of money, complicated application, many documents used are identified in this study. Few recommendations were provided by the researcher to resolve the difficulties faced by the researchers in protecting their research products. Besides that, the given recommendations also to help the university in encourage the researchers to protect university research products.

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