When you are investing in and developing intellectual property, it is important to protect it to maintain your market advantage and ensure that unauthorized users don’t trespass on what you created. If you don’t protect your intellectual property, it will be dedicated to the public or more commonly your competitors can exploit that IP without consequence. How best to protect your intellectual property depends on the nature of the creation, as well as the territorial scope where the company does business. Adequate protection in the United States does not equal adequate protection internationally. Intellectual property can be protected by patent, copyright, and trademark. Proper protection of the intellectual property may include more than one solution, but it may not need all of them. At Hinckley Allen, we have a multidisciplinary approach to protecting your intellectual property that includes trial lawyers, patent counseling, IP counseling, as well as prosecuting copyrights, trademarks, and patents.