Once the idea has been developed commercial protection maybe necessary. It is important to plan and understand different ways of ensuring that new ideas, IP and innovations are protected from commercial competition.

There are three main schools of thought here;

1. To protect everything, based on the assumption that it may be useful to someone else and that they may see ‘value’ in it and use it for competitive advantage or revenue gain.

2. To protect some items after an assessment of their ‘value’ has been conducted and risk assessed.

3. To protect nothing, we are constantly creating, evolving and improving ideas, processes and new technologies. If other organisations adopt similar methods or products then this helps promote and create awareness for the item.

We help you design procedural legal protection for your company and for all stakeholders in an idea program or any innovation system we design with you.

Innovation systems are often closed systems where every party that is involved is covered by a non-disclosure agreement or employment contract. This is usually reflected in conditions of entry for an ideas program.

We have set up numerous programs and can save you time and money designing legal protection into your innovation process that suits your objectives.