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Central Role of IP and Marketing in Business Design

azrights

Most people assume intellectual property is primarily a distress purchase. 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. The fear is that niching will be limiting.

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

LexBlog IP

More times than not, issues of ownership come to a head when it is time to apply for a trade mark registration, engage in due diligence to raise funding or sell, or when a business needs to enforce its trade mark rights. This is particularly important if the trade mark contains graphic elements or is part of the business’ get up.