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Inventors, designers, entrepreneurs, writers and other creative and business people are often interested in protecting their ideas and business inventions. But how do you protect a new invention, or the brand name of a product, or the words of a song? Through patents, industrial designs, trade-marks and copyright—and sometimes as trade secrets too. This script discusses these forms of what the law calls “intellectual property,” starting with patents.
Inventors, designers, entrepreneurs, writers and other creative and business people are often interested in protecting their ideas and business inventions. But how do you protect a new invention, or the brand name of a product, or the words of a song? Through patents, industrial designs, trade-marks and copyright—and sometimes as trade secrets too. This script discusses these forms of what the law calls “intellectual property,” starting with patents.