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You’ve seen them all. The ©, the ™, the ®, even the “pat. pending.” What does it all mean? And how can understanding trademarks, patents, and copyrights help to protect your business’s intellectual property?

Once you start to understand the differences between each type of licensing for intellectual property, you can start on working to protect them. In general, copyrights safeguard books and movies, patents protect inventions, and trademarks protect logos and slogans. There are quite a few differences in how they work and how you can protect them.