Idea Protection

Protect your intellectual property with clear advice on confidentiality agreements, prior disclosure considerations, and documentation methods. Understand when and how to safeguard your invention ideas before sharing them with others.

Conflicts of Interest

As in other fields there are a number of potential ways that conflicts of interest may become apparent or significant at different stages of the invention pr...

Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988

The Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is a piece of government legislation which allows those people who are inventors, writers, musicians, or film ma...

Intellectual Property Protection

If you design, write or manufacture something and have taken the appropriate measures to ensure that your name – or your company’s name – is associated...

Non-Disclosure Agreements

Also known as confidentiality agreements or confidential disclosure agreements, NDAs can take a number of forms depending on the context in which they are us...

Proving You Were First to Invent

In the US the patent system is run on the principle that the patent should be awarded to the first person to invent, whilst in the UK (and the rest of the wo...

Securing a Licensing Agreement For Your Invention

A common plan for inventors taking their products to market is to secure a licensing agreement with an existing manufacturer or retailer which would produce...

Trademarks

Inventors ‘going it alone’ often need distinctive brand names and identities for their products to set them apart from the competition and to highlight t...

Understanding Copyrights as a Budding Inventor

Whilst patents and design rights are the forms of intellectual property most commonly deemed important inventors it is worthwhile understanding copyright, ho...

Value of a Product Evaluation

Whether you’re licensing your invention to another company or going it alone, you will need — at some point — an evaluation of how much your invention...