Thursday, November 16, 2006

How to Protect Your Intellectual Property

Developing a strategy to protect intellectual property is critical. First, identify all the innovations in products or manufacturing methods that you and your associates or employees developed during the last couple of years. This gives you a list of all your assets that may benefit from patent or trade-secret protection. Also, be sure to gather all the software, instructional manuals, or promotional literature developed or published under your direction or authority for the last five or six years. This will help you build your case against copycats.


Read more about protecting intellectual property:

Defining an Original Work of Authorship
The Three Types of Patents
Copyright License Agreements
Inventions: The Next Generation.

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