Intellectual property breaks down into two basic categories; (#1) IP rights that require registration , such as patents, trademarks, registered designs and domain names; and (#2) IP rights that may not require registration, such as copyright, unregistered design right, common law trademarks and know-how/confidential
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Together with the acceptance that there are valid and objective evaluation methods that can be properly applied to determine the value of intellectual property, has come the increasing acceptance of IP as a tradeable asset. In order to use IP assets as collateral to obtain finance, organisations
Just as companies are not static, neither is IP. It can pay dividends for companies to undertake a thorough review of their IP portfolio, as the company grows and changes, to determine what it is worth keeping in terms of intellectual property for further development and commercialisation, and what
Each country has different processes and methods for protecting IP and the pitfalls in obtaining IP protection in each country also vary. In Europe, a system operates to provide a method of protection across the EU states, thereby making it more streamlined to obtain patent protection.
In the EU, different
Single inventors and small start-ups often do not investigate the full cost of patent ownership and exploitation. They begin filing a patent and then decide that they cannot afford the costs of continuing the process and seek to sell the invention during the patent application stage. Typically
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