Business Intellectual Property Strategy Guide
A step-by-step guide to identifying and protecting your most valuable assets.
What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
Intellectual Property refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce. Protecting your IP is one of the most critical steps you can take to build a valuable and defensible business.
This guide will walk you through the four main types of IP and help you create a basic strategy for your business. Use the "Next" and "Previous" buttons to navigate, or click directly on a tab.
How to Use This Guide
- Each section provides an overview of an IP type and a checklist of strategic actions.
- For each action item, you can select your current status.
- The final "Summary" tab will compile all items marked as "To-Do" or "In Progress" into a downloadable action plan.
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