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benefits of protecting your ipCopyrightSignificant for the arts, media and entertainment industriesBeneficial for businesses that produces any form of original content such as: Computer programming code Drawings or renderingsAudiovisual recordingsRegistering works can make it easier to launch and/or defend against infringement actionsAvoid infringing with your own works – Ensure that content used from other sources is not…

Patent Law OverviewWhat is a Patent?A patent is a government grant of the exclusive right to make, use, and sell the subject matter of a recent invention (Patent Act, RSC 1985, c P-4, s 42)Pertains to inventionsany new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement therein…

What is intellectual property? IP and data are now the world’s most valuable business and national security assets. This is best evidenced in the steady change of the Standard & Poors 500 Index (S&P500) over the last four decades. As shown in Figure 1, in 1975, about 17% of the value of the S&P500 was intangible…