How to Protect What's Really Valuable About Your Invention, Product or Business Idea What is really valuable about your idea, invention, startup or business, and how can you protect it? How can you protect your intellectual property without spending all your resources up front? What is the right strategy for you? How do you weigh the risks vs the rewards in protecting your IP, brand or product? In this Empowered Inventing Series Lesson, we will teach you how to form, plan out and implement a strategy for protecting what’s valuable for you regarding your idea, invention, startup or business. The steps you take at this critical point of your inventing or entrepreneurial journey can help determine where you ultimately end up with your product with respect to selling, licensing, or growing a business around your idea. An idea is just a dream without a plan, and our goal is to teach you how to put the right plan in place that will actually move you forward toward success. You’ll learn valuable & important lessons such as: - Why timing can be crucial to knowing what to protect and when to protect it - The “IP Money Trap” and how to avoid it - What can you protect vs what should you protect - The Entrepreneur’s guide to hiring a patent attorney - The Bootstrap IP strategy that can save you thousands - Getting the Right Patent for the Right Reason - Trademarks, Copyrights, & Trade Secrets - …and more! Acture Network KY a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping inventors & entrepreneurs through education, engagement and empowerment. We have been helping inventors, entrepreneurs & small businesses for over 20 years. This 2-3 hour class will cover many important issues that inventors and entrepreneurs need to work out before spending too much time and money. Many inventors fail because they are nnot equipped with the right information before making crucial decisions. Let us help you to win at inventing!