Your ideas, innovations and brand are uniquely yours – and for your business to succeed, you must protect them. Failing to do so can threaten your livelihood and allow competitors to benefit from your hard work. 

Legal protections such as copyright, trade marks, patents and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) can provide the safeguards you need to ensure that you maximise the return on your intellectual property.

Navigating these various forms of protection, and understanding which one is best for your business, is complicated – and you will need a specialist legal adviser to guide you through it.

The Thrings Intellectual Property Team are experienced in helping businesses protect their brand and ideas. Here, they have compiled a series of articles and guides providing straightforward advice on this complex area.

Read more from our extensive range of Business Matters articles here.

Protecting Intellectual Property can be complicated, and articles on the topic can be lengthy and packed with jargon.

At Thrings, we want to provide you with concise advice, in plain English, so you get the right information, right away.

Our Take 5 Guides address, in five simple steps, some of the key issues, including quickfire guides to protecting various kinds of intellectual property including written work, audio, video and designs.

Business Matters is a content hub for owners who need advice on legal issues which may arise at every stage of their business life.

However, we know that nothing is better than discussing these issues face-to-face with a specialist adviser.

If you want to know more about any aspect of protecting your business’s brand, innovations and ideas, the Thrings Intellectual Property Team will be able to help you.