All Businesses have Intellectual Property: Part 1

An all too common statement made by businesses is that they ‘do not possess any intellectual property’. However, even the smallest of businesses usually owns at least four of the six key intellectual property rights (‘IPRs’), namely copyright, trade marks, domain names and know-how – failure to identify your IPRs means you may be over-looking valuable company assets.

In a three part series, Emma Lambert looks at the six IPRs: copyright; designs; trade marks; domain names; patents; and know-how. She will help you to identify which rights your business owns and suggests steps you can take to protect them – many of which are free and easy to implement.

In this first article, Emma considers copyright and designs.