IP Protection

What do you have to do to protect your intellectual property rights?

Some rights arise automatically on creation: these include copyrights, database rights, certain design rights, rights in passing off and some rights in trade secrets and confidential information.
Other rights can only be obtained by application to the different intellectual property offices around the world where you want some form of registered protection. Patents, registered trade marks and registered designs fall into this category.

Types of Intellectual Property include:

Trade Marks

• protecting brand names, symbols and logos;
• these can be registered ® or unregistered ™

Copyright

• protecting the copying of artistic or written works

Designs

• protecting the shape and configuration of  designs of articles from copying

Patents

• national monopoly right granted to owner to prevent others using it

Database rights

• protecting the copying or misuse if databases of information

Trade Secrets/Know-How/confidential Information

How we can help

We can help you identify the types of intellectual property you may have and advise you on the steps you can take to protect your IP assets with a budget to suit your business