How can I protect my intellectual property?
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How can I protect my intellectual property?
I am creating a business of coaching the mental game of golf. I have designed/discovered a new way in how to play the game. I have discovered the ultimate secret to golf and I want to coach others in this but I want to see how I can protect it. For example, I have discovered how to find your “authentic swing” and the details that go into that. How can I protect this intellectual property? Or can I protect it?
Asked on July 15, 2011 under Business Law, California
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
Your idea if in written form in order to be protected will need to be copywritten. Copyright laws are Federal laws as a rule, but your state of residence may have its own laws on the subject. For example books, plays, and computer games are copywritten to protect the owner from others who use the book, play or computer game without permission and presumably to make money from it.
If you have a specific name and logo for your new business, you would need to register a trademark for the both which can be done under Federal or State laws. Whether you resgister federally or in your State depends upon the degree of business you think you will generate, only inside California or throughout the United States.
Protecting intellectual property is complicated and most people who have a product, idea or invention they want to market and protect hire an attorney who does intellectual property law.
Good luck.
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