Assets: Understanding Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents

Event description

This high level workshop is tailored for small business owners and entrepreneurs who need to safeguard their creative and intellectual assets. You will learn the distinctions between trademarks, copyrights, and patents, their benefits, and the processes for obtaining and enforcing these protections.

Topics Covered:

1. Introduction to Intellectual Property (IP): Definitions and importance of IP for small businesses.

2. Trademarks: What they protect, how to register them, and the benefits of trademark protection.

3. Copyrights: Coverage of copyrights, registration process, and how they protect creative works.

4. Patents: Understanding patents, the patent application process, and protecting inventions.

5. Trade Secrets: Definition, examples, and how to protect business secrets.

6. IP Strategy: How to develop an effective intellectual property strategy for your business.

7. Infringement and Enforcement: Identifying IP infringement and steps to enforce your rights.

8. Licensing and Monetization: Ways to monetize your intellectual property through licensing.

9. IP in Digital Age: Protecting IP in the context of digital and online environments.

10. International IP Protection: Considerations for protecting your intellectual property globally.

Faculty: Destiny Bounds. As the founder of Bounds Law, Destiny provides affordable and holistic services to small businesses in Missouri and Kansas. Through flat-fee packages and the Legalfluence Contract Shop, she offers cost-effective protection. With Bound for Destiny Consulting, Destiny offers strategic business coaching to emerging female entrepreneurs. She combines business knowledge, profit strategies, and her legal background to provide holistic consulting for business success. Destiny is a former Big Law and in-house counsel, specializing in supporting entrepreneurs to develop their business foundation and empower them to be proactive rather than reactive, so they can build their dream business that results in more peace and profit. She is a SCORE Certified Mentor.