Intellectual Property Toolkit
Making intellectual property work for your business
The IP Toolkit helps direct you through useful information about Intellectual Property (IP). It contains information, instructional modules, links and highlighted glossary terms that answer most IP questions asked by businesses and entrepreneurs. Here you can find out what IP is, why it is useful, how it fits as part of a business strategy, how to apply for it and how to use IP effectively.
Intellectual property (IP), very broadly, means the legal rights that result from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields.
About Intellectual Property
- The "Role of IP"
- Who owns my ideas or intangible creations?
- Managing knowledge and innovation
- IP Facts
Using IP in Business
Types of IP
- Patents
- Trade-marks
- Copyrights
- Industrial Designs
- Integrated Circuit Topographies
- Plant Breeders' Rights
Legal Issues
How to…
Obtain IP Protection
Perform Searches
- In my area of interest
- For similar or equivalent technologies
- For competitors or potential partners
- To discover new markets
