Intellectual property for business

How to recognise and use different types of intellectual property rights to protect your business' inventions and ideas

How to conduct an audit of your business' intellectual property rights and take steps to protect and secure your IP

Understand how to secure and enforce your intellectual property rights internationally, and register your patents, trade marks and designs overseas

Information on retaining protection in the UK for EU Trade Marks, Registered Community Designs and International Registrations designating the EU

Overview of the rules governing address for service for intellectual property rights in the UK.

An overview of trade secrets, confidentiality agreements and other less common methods of protecting intellectual property

Non-disclosure agreements can protect your ideas or invention when you need to discuss them with investors, manufacturers and other third parties

IP crime is widespread and growing, and has serious economic, quality and safety impacts

Understand the importance of digital assets - what they are, how to protect them and how to maximise their value to your business

Actions that parallel exporters to the EEA and intellectual property rights holders need to take

Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.

How to protect your business or product idea when pitching it to prospective investors, clients and contractors

Simple tips to help you deal with copyright infringement and protect your images, designs and other creative work online.

Ways you can use intellectual property (such as brands, patents and designs) to support the growth of your business.

Customers must no longer access programmes via EU satellite broadcasting services to avoid a charge for a UK service

EEA collective management organisations may no longer automatically represent UK right holders and collective management organisations