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Intellectual Property Protection: Key to Entrepreneur Success.
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PR Newswire
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January 7, 2008
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CLEVELAND, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Ensuring your intellectual property is safeguarded against theft is one of the first steps every entrepreneur should take. From processes to ideas to inventions, intellectual property is often more valuable than physical assets and its theft costs U.S. companies roughly $300 billion annually.
Types of intellectual property
There are four legally defined categories of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Each category offers entrepreneurs special protections and violators on state and federal levels are subject to prosecution.
-- Copyrights protect your ideas and how you express them. Books, ...