Patents and Intellectual Property

Copyright, patents, trademarks and registered designs

Got an idea for a new product? Or a new logo or design?  While it remains simply an idea you have no protection in law but once you have put your idea on paper (or some other permanent  format) it can be protected and can then be regarded as your intellectual property.

It is important to understand how to protect your intellectual property, allowing you to profit from your own work while prevent others from doing so.

Business @ The Mitchell can help you find the right protection for your intellectual property from the four main types:

• Copyright: protects creative works such as literary, dramatic, musical or artistic
• Patents: protects new inventions or technology and improved products or processes
• Registered designs: protects the aesthetic appearance or the visual design of a product
• Trademarks: protects words, phrases, symbols or logos that distinguish goods or services.