The correct answer is: C. Patents
A patent is a right granted by the government to an inventor, giving the inventor the exclusive right to make, use, sell, and offer to sell an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention.
Copyright protects original works of authorship, such as literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works. It also protects computer programs, databases, and compilations of data.
Geographical indications are a type of intellectual property that identifies a good as originating in a particular place where a given quality, reputation, or other characteristic of the good is essentially attributable to its geographical origin.
Registered designs protect the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation.