A patent is the right protecting an invention in any field of technology, which is new, involves an inventive step and is susceptible of industrial application.

A trademark is the right which protects the sign which distinguishes the goods and/or services of one participant in the economic circulation from the same or similar goods and/or services of another participant in the economic circulation.

An industrial design is an exclusive right to the appearance of a product. A design means the two-dimensional or three-dimensional appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from its features, in particular the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture, and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation.

An indication of geographical origin is any indication by which a country or a place situated therein is directly or indirectly indicated as the country or the place of geographical origin of a product. An indication of geographical origin is used to designate natural, agricultural, industrial, artisan and handicraft products.

The topography of an integrated circuit is a series of related images, however fixed or encoded, representing three-dimensional pattern of layers of which integrated circuit is composed, whereat each image contains whole or part of the pattern of a semiconductor product in every phase of its production.

Copyright stems from and belongs to the author by mere creation of a work of authorship and it is not conditioned by fulfillment of any formalities or requirements in respect of its subject matter, quality or purpose. It is sufficient that an individual idea comes out of a spiritual, inner sphere of its creator's mind and be expressed, and that as a result of that it becomes a work of authorship that enjoys copyright protection.

The Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina has developed a pre-diagnostics service of intellectual property for small and medium-sized companies that want to assess their strength in the field of intellectual property and use it for their development.