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    "Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce."

"IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create."   http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-NBDGovno     

What is Innovation Video      (an explanation of how Patents and Innovation are linked begins at marker 1:20)

Tools, Resources and Advice to help keep your ideas … yours  

TRUSTED TIME-STAMPING - Trusted time-stamping allows proving you held a document, some information or a file at some specific point in time, in a way that can't be forged.

Information and History of Trusted Time stamping     http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/trusted_timestamping

How to create a time stamp of your work on the Innovation Portal.pdf

ORIGIN STAMP -  Free Trusted Time stamping resource  http://www.originstamp.org/

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