Protect Your Idea: IP & Trade Mark Digital Guide

PROTECT YOUR IDEA

The South African Entrepreneur's Practical Guide to Intellectual Property, Trade Marks & Protecting Your Business

A practical business playbook covering the core concepts, processes, worksheets and implementation tools.

The guide includes practical resources such as:

• IP Inventory
• Trade-Mark Self-Audit
• Trade-Mark Search Worksheet
• What Do I Actually Sell? worksheet
• Trade-Mark Application Readiness Checklist
• Creator & Ownership Record
• Invention Assessment
• Confidential Information Register
• Before You Submit Checklist
• Submission Review Worksheet
• Funding Application IP Review
• Third-Party IP Checklist
• Contract IP Checklist
• IP Incident Log
• IP Evidence Log
• IP Vault filing structure
• IP Register
• IP Priority Matrix
• 30-Day IP Protection Plan
• Business IP Audit

The guide's contents also include a dedicated section on what to do when someone copies you and a set of entrepreneur-focused IP questions.