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Year: 2020 (page 44 of 93)

Due diligence/branding

When identifying IP rights that apply to your business or will be applied to your business, it is important to remember that whilst a company name and a domain name might be available that does not necessarily mean you are clear to use that name in the course of business. Clearing a trade mark for

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IP Rights are territorial 🚩

Intellectual Property rights, such as patents, trademarks and registered designs, are territorial in nature and infringement of those rights is only possible with an intellectual property right is in force. In practice this means that you will need to consider carefully with your IP advisors where

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Do not disclose your Patent or Invention

It is extremely important not to publicly disclose your invention, for example by including details on your website, before you’ve filed a patent application. Any disclosures that you make become part of the “prior art” and could be cited against you when your patent application is examined

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IP which requires registration and IP which need not require registration

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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IP can be a tradeable asset including a vehicle to raise finance

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

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