what you need to know about intellectual property
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What You Need to Know About Intellectual Property
What is Intellectual
Property??
Intellectual Property Is ...
• Patents
• Copyrights
• Trademarks
• Trade secrets
Who is Involved in
Intellectual Property?
Involvement in Intellectual Property
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO has 146 countries from across the world.
• European Patent Organization (EPO)
The EPO is the organization that controls incoming
patents for nations in the European Union.
What Benefit Does
Intellectual Property
Provide?
Benefits of IP • IP allows inventors to profit from their inventions on
an exclusive level.
• Inventors can keep exclusive rights and produce their
product, or license out production to many different
production companies.
• Patents and other IP are considered investments
because of the benefits of legal protection.
How Does Intellectual
Property Work?
How IP Works • Protection for ideas through laws.
• If you want something protected outside of your home
country, you must go through EPO or WIPO.
• Filing falls on the individual or company who created
the intellectual property.
How Does Foreign
Intellectual Property
Work?
Filing IP in Foreign Countries • The first step to filing is hiring someone to do your
intellectual property translations.
• Select which countries you plan on applying to for IP.
• Select a filing pathway that will make the most sense:
WIPO or EPO.
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