The trademarks

Trademarks are signs that allow to distinguish your goods or services from those of your competitors in the market. It is distinguished from a brand by having legal protection and it’s your unique identifier. A brand is your image, what the public sees and thinks...

The trade secrets

A trade secret is defined as any confidential information kept secret, meaning that it has not been disclosed to third parties, that has commercial value and its subject to measures aiming at keeping it secret.  In a wider sense, trade secrets refer to any...

What is a utility model?

Similar to patents, utility models protect new technical inventions by grating the holder the exclusive right to prevent third parties from exploiting an invention without authorization in the country where the utility model was registered. To obtain the protection,...

How to protect the know-how

The know-how means a package of non-patented practical information (of a technical, commercial, administrative, financial or other nature), resulting from experience and testing, which is secret, substantial and identifiable and it can be protected by trade secret....

What is a patent?

The patent is the most common protection mechanism used for technical invention. The patent provides the patent holder the exclusive right to commercially make, sell, distribute, import and use their patented inventions within the territory covered by the patent...

The Intellectual Property protection mechanisms

Intellectual Property (IP) is classified in 2 categories, Industrial Property and Copyright. Industrial property includes patents for inventions, industrial designs, utility model, trademarks and geographical indications. Copyright or authors’ right, is a legal term...