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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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
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
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