Protecting your IP

Overview

Your products and services may embody a wide range of intellectual property (IP) and several types of protection may therefore be appropriate in any given case.

In this section, we offer a brief overview of the types of IP that may reside in the three key aspects of a product, process or service: function, form, and identity. We also indicate how these aspects can be protected.

An overview like this can never be comprehensive, so you should take proper advice. At Marks & Clerk, the advice we give has a strategic, commercial emphasis, because we understand that companies often think in terms of developing and managing an IP portfolio to protect a market and/or brand rather than in terms of individual patents, trade marks and designs.