Protecting Your Business' Intellectual Property : Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501), by Bruce R. Barringer. Available in print and digital formats.

Failing to protect your intellectual property can destroy your business. Learn how to keep it from happening to you.

Imagine you’ve started a business to produce a new type of smoke alarm specifica...