Let's Understand Intellectual Property

This program is for those interested in learning the basics on protecting their ideas!

Your facilitator is Salma Benkabbou, Attorney at Law. Salma is the millennial business lawyer. She helps entrepreneurs protect their creative greatness and avoid a lot of common legal pitfalls that many early stage entrepreneurs face.

In this program, you will learn the basics of Intellectual property which will include the following:

1. Understanding how to protect their brand via Trademarks

2. Understanding how to protect their original works of authorship via Copyrights.

3. Understanding how to maintain confidentiality of their Creative Greatness™ via Trade Secrets.

4. Understanding the basics of Patents and dangers of waiting too long to protect their inventions.

5. The fundamental differences between Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Trade Secrets.

6. When to register their Intellectual Property

7. Dangers of DIY registrations

All Operation Start-up Workshops align with The Business Model Canvas, a tool used by entrepreneurs and business owners to validate their ideas. If you are not that familiar with the business model canvas, and/or the business modeling process, here are a few resources that may be of interest.

a) How to use the business model canvas, an introduction:http://www.spikelab.org/blog/correctly-use-business-model-canvas.html 
b) Additional resources related to the business model canvas (books, videos, free courses, websites etc.): http://www.spikelab.org/resources.htm