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Central Role of IP and Marketing in Business Design

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If you design IP protection into the business through your agreements, choice of brand name and other identifiers you strengthen your position against the most common and damaging forms of copying in business. Lack of appreciation about what ‘brand’ and ‘IP’ mean and entail is why better education on brand creation is essential.

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Trade mark ownership: As easy as A-B-C?

LexBlog IP

Ensuring that a business holds all rights to enable it to make full use of its trade mark should be front of mind in any branding consideration. Exploring the terrain of authorship first, it is essential, as part of any brand development exercise, that the author (or authors) of a trade mark are able to be pin-pointed.