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Protecting Your Idea

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Keeping an Inventor's Notebook
Protect your idea with these easy-to-follow steps for keeping an inventor's notebook--one of the most important steps in the inventing process.

In The Mix
How can you protect your secret recipe?

Top Secrets
The newest way to keep trespassers off your intellectual property.

How to Protect Your Business's Trade Secrets
These five rules will help safeguard some of your company's most important assets.

Patent Holders Given Edge in Battle Against Infringers
Supreme Court decision eases inventors' burden of proving someone else has violated their patent rights

Answers to 3 Tough Copyright Questions
When designing your marketing materials, take care not to rip anyone off in the process.

The Risks of Sharing Your Idea
It's every entrepreneur's worst nightmare: Someone has stolen your idea. How can you really protect yourself?

Inventing A to Z
Everything you ever wanted to know about making your big idea a marketable reality

Top 10 Patent Myths
Your brilliant idea needn't fall by the wayside simply because you don't want to deal with the patent process. We've shattered the top 10 myths so you can see your way clear to patenting your product.

“Oh, Yeah? Prove It!”
Bringing both sides of the patent issue together to find the truth about prior art

When is Information Free?
In a free society, is publicly available information yours for the taking?

Finding a Lawyer
Tips on finding reputable patent attorneys

Registering Your Idea
Our Invention Protection Expert shows you the ins and outs of the Disclosure Document Program.

Already Taken?
Think your idea is unique and original? Think again. Our Start-Up Legal Expert suggests doing your homework before taking your idea to market.

It's a Secret
So keep it that way--protect your proprietary information.

Keeping Secrets
Protecting your idea isn't all fun and games. Our Invention Protection Expert tells you how to keep your ideas safe.