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Design right and registration. Intellectual property is something you create that’s unique. It includes copyright, patents, designs and trade marks, and can be: something you invent, like a new product a product’s design or appearance a brand or logo written work, like content on a website or in a brochure artistic work, like photography or illustrations film recordings or musical compositions computer software You can’t protect an idea but you can often protect what you do with it, eg you can’t protect an idea for a book but you can protect the words you’ve written. Who owns intellectual property You or your business usually own the intellectual property if you create something. Contracts with employees and subcontractor should say who owns the intellectual property of anything they create for you.

Protecting your intellectual property allows you to: stop others using what you’ve created without your permission charge others for the right to use what you’ve created Types of protection. Kapor Capital. Mission: Small Business℠ Who are the TaskRabbits? In order to become a TaskRabbit, you must be over 21. Refer to our City Directory to ensure we are active in your area. How to get started: Log in with Facebook or sign up with your email address. We're big on safety, sowe require background checks. Browse our open tasks, find tasks thatinterest you, and make an offer. Here's what it's liketo be a TaskRabbit. Social Media, Digital and Internet Marketing Training and Consulting : Social Media Training – Training & Marketing in social media | Boot Camp Digital. Smallbiztechnology.com: Tech Insight and News for Small Businesses. Venture Fair experts: The timing is right for mHealth entrepreneurs.

It's a great time to be an mHealth entrepreneur, experts said at Tuesday's Mobile Health Venture Fair, presented by mHIMSS, at the mHealth Summit in Washington, DC. With about 100 people in attendance, the event gave the opportunity for 20 emerging mobile health companies to present their products to potential investors. [See also: Sebelius lauds smartphones at mHealth Summit] "It's an extraordinary time to be an innovator in healthcare IT and mobile health," said Will Yu, director of innovations for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in the session's opening remarks.

"We are the beacon in healthcare and training across the globe," Yu said. "We can ration care or innovate our way out of this," he said. [See also: mHealth apps forecast to increase threefold by 2012] [See also: Sebelius lauds smartphones at mHealth Summit.] Lenard Marcus of Edison Ventures said the near-term American economy should see "lots of money" going into the healthcare IT space.

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