How to Protect Your Ideas from Being Stolen
Great ideas come to the people who possess great mind which are developed by creative thinking and analytical reasoning. It is not enough to keep ideas in your mind as you have to get the necessary protection for them so that no other person can stole them from you.
There are many ways to get protection for your ideas which include patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights. You have to fulfil certain criteria in each method to get the protection depending upon the nature of your ideas. If you are looking forward to protect your ideas, you can take help from the given steps.
Instructions
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You can only get patent protection for your ideas if it fulfils certain criteria. For instance, the first criterion is that your invention should be ‘useful’. If your invention cannot be used in any kind of processes or it is not useful for the people, it cannot be given protection. In addition, your invention has to be ‘non-obvious’ which means that it should be based on a completely unique and creative idea. Moreover, you have to go to the USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) website in order to find out that your idea has not been registered already to any other person. If your idea is already registered, you cannot get the patent protection against it.
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You can also take help from the patent law attorneys in getting protection for your ideas. You should know that the attorneys charge huge amount of fee for their services which many people cannot afford. Therefore, you should only hire an attorney if you can afford, otherwise just do your work by yourself.
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You can also apply for a trademark if you want to do business with some particular sign. You should register your logo as trademark, if you have agencies of different products. In addition, if you manufacture your own products, it will be better for you to protect you name with the trademark.
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If you have some intellectual ideas in your mind, you should go for buying the copyrights for them. Your intellectual ideas should be unique and creative, otherwise you will not be granted the copyrights for. After getting the copyrights, you can sell the right in return of some considerations to any publishers to use your name or your work.
