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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
Support for developing your ideas
Where to get help to develop new product ideas if you're looking to manufacture, market, sell or license your inventions
Science parks
Support and benefits of science parks, including technology transfer and business incubation
Self Assessment if you're self-employed
Requirements for Self Assessment if you are self-employed
Intellectual property crime and your business
IP crime is widespread and growing, and has serious economic, quality and safety impacts
Protecting intellectual property
How to conduct an audit of your business' intellectual property rights and take steps to protect and secure your IP
Get patent protection for your business
Find out how to patent a product, and protect your ideas or inventions by applying for a patent and securing your patent rights
Trade marks
Introduction to trade marking – how to choose, search for, register and protect trade marks in the UK or abroad
Design right and registration
How to protect the value of your designs through unregistered design rights and design registration
Copyright for your business
What is copyright, how to use this legal right to protect your creative work and what to do if someone violates it
Protecting your intellectual property abroad
Understand how to secure and enforce your intellectual property rights internationally, and register your patents, trade marks and designs overseas
Use innovation to start or grow your business
What is innovation and why should new and existing businesses innovate in order to increase their efficiency and profitability
Find support for inventors
Support and advice for inventors and businesses developing innovative ideas, products and technologies in Northern Ireland
Understand business taxes - top support resources
Top resources to help you better understand and be more confident in dealing with your business taxes
Working out your Corporation Tax
Corporation Tax rates and reliefs and how to calculate Corporation Tax
Templates for record-keeping
Download free templates that can help your business with record-keeping
Tobacco Products Duty: moving and storing goods
Requirements for moving and storing goods and Tobacco Products Duty
Tax when giving to charity
How to make gifts to charity and claim relief on giving, tax relief rules for sponsoring a charity and how Payroll Giving works