1. What You Need to Know
About Intellectual Property

2. What is Intellectual
Property??

4. Intellectual Property Is ...
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Patents
Copyrights
Trademarks
Trade secrets

5. Who is Involved in
Intellectual Property?

7. Involvement in Intellectual Property
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO has 146 countries from across the world.
• European Patent Organization (EPO)
The EPO is the organization that controls incoming
patents for nations in the European Union.

8. What Benefit Does
Intellectual Property
Provide?

10. Benefits of IP
• IP allows inventors to profit from their inventions on
an exclusive level.
• Inventors can keep exclusive rights and produce their
product, or license out production to many different
production companies.
• Patents and other IP are considered investments
because of the benefits of legal protection.

11. How Does Intellectual
Property Work?

13. How IP Works
• Protection for ideas through laws.
• If you want something protected outside of your home
country, you must go through EPO or WIPO.
• Filing falls on the individual or company who created
the intellectual property.

14. How Does Foreign
Intellectual Property
Work?

16. Filing IP in Foreign Countries
• The first step to filing is hiring someone to do your
intellectual property translations.
• Select which countries you plan on applying to for IP.
• Select a filing pathway that will make the most sense:
WIPO or EPO.