IPROTECT™   

International Recognition of Intellectual Property Rights

IPROTECT is a method, which provides a legalised foundation for International Recognition of Intellectual Property Rights. This means that the official documentation provided under IPROTECT is, in one or other of its two forms, acceptable as prima facie evidence by the courts of all member states of the World Trade Organisation and the Berne Convention i.e. the great majority of developed countries. This procedure is subject to an initial assesment of suitability following completion and submission to IPRSTART of a Non Disclosure Agreement.

IPROTECT PLUS is a method complimenting the above giving the ability to have bespoke agreements written and allied to the official documentation.

IPROTECT offers advantages to:

Companies or individuals with patents that are only registered in a limited number of Countries because of the high cost of yearly renewals. Most SMEs would fall into this category. IPROTECT can also potentially replace rights irretrievably lost in countries where a patent has not been registered. 

Companies or individuals who want to protect copyrights, and for those who want to license anything which is copyrightable.

Companies who want to gain more marketing effect can combine IPRotect with other marketing tools. The most common, and probably the best tool would be the trademark, which is also an intellectual property right.

Patent rights last for twenty years and must be paid for each year, becoming more expensive as the 20-year mark is approached.

The IPROTECT fee is less than the registration fee for one country for one year – and is only payable once it can also last very much longer, in some cases up to 70 years after the death of the original copyright-owner.

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