A penny for your thoughts

For every outstanding idea that is created by industry innovators, there are endless numbers of people waiting to steal it. Gareth Carpenter warns that protection needs to be put in place sooner rather than later, or the number of infringements could continue to rise

If there has been one positive outcome from today's litigation culture, it is a creeping rise in awareness within commercial enterprises of the need to protect their intellectual property (IP).

The definition of IP can mean anything from a multinational pharmaceutical company defending its patents for innovative billion-dollar products to a street corner greengrocer protecting its trademark. While on the surface the two may not seem to be linked, at the crux lies one very important common

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