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Get help with intellectual property protection
Advice, guidance and support with intellectual property issues for Northern Ireland businesses
Avoid infringing other people's intellectual property
How to check that you are not infringing other people's intellectual property
The importance of protecting intellectual property
Understand the significance of intellectual property rights and why it is important to protect IP such as trade marks, patents, designs and copyright
Intellectual property audit
How to conduct an intellectual property audit and assess the ownership of IP rights in your business
Types of legal protection for intellectual property rights
How to choose the right type of legal protection for your patents, trade marks, design and copyright
Intellectual property rights and your employees
How to ensure you hold the rights to any IP created by staff by stating the position in employment contracts
Intellectual property and freelance contractors
How to manage intellectual property rights if you commission work from freelancers or through work-for-hire agreements
Prevent intellectual property infringement
How to safeguard intellectual property rights by ensuring hard-copy information is kept securely and by protecting computer data
Protecting your business name and domain name
Your business name can be your most important intellectual property asset - learn how to protect it and how to register web addresses
Paying business rates
Payment options available for you to pay your business rates bill, what you should do if you can't pay your bill, and what will happen if you don't.
Register a trade mark outside the UK
How to register a trade mark in Europe and internationally by applying for EU trade mark registration or applying under the WIPO's Madrid protocol
Register a trade mark in the UK
Apply to the Intellectual Property Office to register your trade mark in the UK
What is a trade mark?
What can be registered as a trade mark in the UK and the difference between acceptable and unacceptable trade marks
Creating a new product development team
Build teams that can bring different skills into your product or service development and work together effectively
Screening new product or service ideas
How to evaluate if your business idea is viable, and what criteria to use to screen new product or service ideas
New product development process
Understand the key stages of new product development process (NPD process), from generating ideas and concepts, to product launch
Pricing strategy for a new product or service
Establishing a pricing strategy for a development project to determine how much to invest in it
Marking of patented products
What is patent marking and how to mark your products correctly to show that you have a patent or patent pending rights
How to protect new product ideas
Different ways in which you can protect your new product or service ideas and concepts
Test the market
How to develop ideas through the process of prototyping, market testing, brand building and pricing