Had a great idea for a product or service you would like to market in the UK?
Worried about protecting it?
A bit confused with all the terminology – licences, trade-secret, copyright, patent, intellectual property?
In the UK the intellectual property law can safeguard your ideas/inventions. Make sure your intellectual property is safe by starting legal protection as soon as your idea, product and/or service exists and you want to explore developing it further. You can employ an intellectualpropertylaw.org.uk solicitor detailed on Solicitor Search Network to provide you with the expert legal advice required. They will help you establish whether your idea is original through thorough legal searches so that you avoid infringing on other people’s ideas/products and help should you establish partnerships to assist in its development. For your protection your solicitor will apply for licenses should you need to use another company’s technology or perhaps a partnership is required – it is imperative to use the law to protect your idea and keep it secret by informing as few people as possible about your idea until it is protected legally hence preventing others from developing your idea. In the UK this is done through legal processes such as trade-secret protection, copyright, patent/design registration law. Any name you want to trade under will need registering to prevent others using it.
Perhaps your intellectual property would provide a good investment opportunity for a sponsor/investor and essential if you face high set up costs and/or require specialist equipment to manufacture the item. You can discuss with your intellectual property solicitor the legal documentation needed such as non-disclosure agreements to ensure protection whereby any interested individual cannot then copy or produce too similar a product/service. In legal documents the wording and clauses used can make interpretation difficult and for you own protection your solicitor will ensure that you are aware of all clauses within any agreements.
Perhaps you need legal protection services from an intellectual property solicitor as an infringement of a patent set up by you or your company has occurred whereby another party is producing a similar product to one you have a patent on. A breach of your copyright protection is where you have produced an original piece of work or writing and someone else tries to copy it without your agreement – your solicitor will help you in your legal fight for redress.
