IP Basics: A Beginners Guide to Patents and Trademarks

Event description

International Trade

Before you launch, grow or sell- make sure what you have built is protected. Are you thinking about starting a business? Do you own one already?  Or maybe you are an investor, artist, or designer. Maybe you sell goods online or in a store or provide a service to others. 

Join us for a beginner-level patents workshop.  This session will introduce the basics IP , including how patents protect inventions and how trademarks safeguard brand identity. Participants will learn how to conduct simple patent searches. navigate free research tools and identify reliable resources for getting started. 

PTRC Representatives are not attorneys and cannot provide legal advice.

Speaker(s): Kendall Caple, MLIC Government Publications and Patent & Trademarks Liberians 

FREE and Open to the Public.