Protecting Your IPR

To protect your business from intellectual property (IP) theft, you must establish your Intellectual Property Rights - both in the United States and in other countries where you do business and source products or where you wish to do business or source products in the future. Most IP rights are territorial, meaning, for example, a U.S. patent or trademark only provides protection in the United States. To enforce your IP rights in other countries, you need to secure protection of that IP in those countries – often through registration.