Protecting your innovation
Intellectual property allows businesses to own and control their innovations and be rewarded for their use, encouraging further innovation and creativity for the benefit of all businesses.
For more information about protecting your intellectual property, click on one of the IP guides below.
Available guides:
For more information about protecting your intellectual property, click on one of the IP guides below.
Available guides:
- What is intellectual property (IP)?
- What are the key stages in protecting and commercialising my invention?
- Do I have to protect my invention before I can use it?
- Are there reasons for not patenting an invention?
- Why is inventorship important?
- How is inventorship determined?
- What is the normal ownership position?
- Why is confidentiality important, and how do I maintain it?
- How can I protect my intellectual property?
- What is a patent?
- Is my invention patentable?
- Can computer software be patented?
- What is 'copyright', and what does it protect?
- How do I find commercial partners?
- Granting rights to others - Licensing
- Granting rights to others - Option agreements
- Granting rights to others - Assignment
- Granting rights to others - Multi-institution inventions
- Sharing income and revenues
- Technology transfer/commercialisation offices of the i10 participants
- Where can I find more online information?
