Why Intellectual Property is Essential for your Business
A well-crafted intellectual property strategy can help maximize the potential of your business. Using and understanding the IP rights, you can:
- secure competitive advantages
- generate revenue streams
- reduce tax liability
- serve as a source of competitive intelligence
- facilitate access to financing
- attract investors and partners
- avoid and mitigate relevant risks.
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WIPO IP Diagnostics
The IP Diagnostic Tool helps you identify your business' IP assets and provides you with an automated report with basic information on how to manage these assets.
Benefits of intellectual property rights for a business
- A brand sets a business apart from its competitors, building trust and consumer loyalty. Learn more about trademarks.
- From reassuring investors to increasing margins, using your patents strategically can improve your bottom line.
- Protecting the way your product looks with an industrial design can provide a major competitive advantage.
- Copyright protects the expression of an idea, in different forms.
- When the source and authenticity matter, using geographical indications can identify your product as being the real deal.
- Trade secrets have the potential to protect a wide range of information that has commercial value due to its confidential nature.
- Plant breeding results in new, improved plant varieties that are an important and sustainable means of achieving food security in the context of population growth and climate change.
WIPO tools and resources for businesses
- Identify your business opportunities and risks associated with IP using our IP Diagnostic Tool.
- Read about essential IP topics for your business in our IP for Business Guides.
- Walk through a startup's journey with our Enterprising Ideas infographic.
- Learn more about key issues to be considered while developing your IP strategy with our IP Strategy Checklist for SMEs.
- Resolve your IP and technology disputes through mediation and arbitration.
- Tackle your domain name disputes.
- Access high quality technology information and related services in your country through our Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs).
- Navigate IP manangement at every stage of your business life cycle with IP Business Moments.
WIPO programs and other initiatives to support businesses and innovators
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IP Management Clinics for SMEs
Support for innovative companies in formulating their IP strategies.
SME Support Institutions Platform (SSIP)
Your gateway to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) support: connect, find resources, and grow your business.
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Patent Drafting Training Program
Improving the skills of those filing patent applications.
WIPOD – Make IP Your Business
Podcast that features how business can make the most out of their IP.
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Entrepreneurs Online Network
Strategies, insights from experts and available resources to put IP to use for businesses.
Intellectual Property Finance
Learn more about how to monetize and leverage your IP assets.
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Events
Expand your business with IP rights
IP audit
Conduct an IP audit to review the IP owned and used by your business.
Secure financing
Use your IP assets to secure financing for your business.
IP valuation
Understand the economic value of your IP assets by carrying out an IP valuation.
Assignment and licensing
Earn revenues through assignment and licensing of your IP assets.
IP in action – learn how SMEs are using their IP
Developing and protecting your online brand: tips for the new entrepreneur
A brand identity comprises the name, trademark, logo, slogan and other indicia of the brand, such as color scheme (collectively, the brand). Most of this is protectable under trademark law in every country and jurisdiction.
Building a better future with recycled plastic
The pavers produced by Gjenge are made of polymer concrete, which is basically sand and plastic. The sand is the aggregate and the plastic is the binder. The pavers are seven times stronger than concrete.
EHang: The Sky’s the Limit
Why is IP the key to survival and development for SMEs? Discover eHang’s case study now.
Energysquare makes wireless recharging a reality
Energysquare is reinventing the way we charge our electronic devices. Their wireless-charging technology, Power by Contact® offers a smart solution for charging several devices simultaneously.
Interactive Digital Stories for the Innovator and Creator!
Read and interact with these IP for Business stories and learn how entrepreneurs and businesses use intellectual property to enrich their innovations and creativity.
More about IP in your business sector
IP and Tourism
Do you own a hotel or restaurant, run a rental car business, manage a travel agency or any other business that provides services to tourists? Find out how the IP system may be able to help you.
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IP and Mobile Applications
Intellectual property (IP) mechanisms help mobile application developers and publishers to generate more income from their creations.
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Indigenous SMEs and IP
SMEs run by indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) can face additional challenges and concerns as they begin to navigate the IP system.
Learn about IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, and IP for Business Division.
为什么知识产权对企业至关重要
一项精心打造的知识产权战略有助于最大限度地发挥企业的潜力。利用和了解这些权利，就可以：
- 确保竞争优势
- 创造收入来源
- 降低税务负担
- 提供竞争情报
- 便利获得融资
- 吸引投资者和合作伙伴
- 避免和缓解相关风险
知识产权对企业的好处
产权组织为企业提供的工具和资源
- 使用我们的知识产权诊断工具确定您的商业机会和与知识产权有关的风险。
- 查阅我们的《企业知识产权指南》，了解有助于您的企业的知识产权关键主题。
- 通过我们的创业理念信息图了解创业公司的历程。
- 通过我们的中小企业知识产权战略清单，了解更多在制定知识产权战略时需要考虑的关键问题。
- 通过调解和仲裁解决知识产权争议和技术争议。
- 解决您的域名争议。
- 通过我们的技术与创新支持中心（TISC），获得您所在国家的高质量技术信息和相关服务。
支持企业和创新者的产权组织计划和其他倡议
利用知识产权拓展业务
生活中的知识产权——了解中小企业如何利用其知识产权
通过我们的故事了解企业如何利用知识产权制度并从知识产权中获益。
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视频：帮助制定知识产权战略的专家建议
Energysquare让无线充电成为现实
Energysquare公司将彻底改变电子设备的充电方式。该公司的无线充电技术PowerbyContact®提供了可以同时为多个设备充电的智能解决方案。
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