5 Reasons to Secure IP Rights for Your Startup

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Before you start to know the reasons to Secure IP Rights for your startup you need to know the reasons not to secure IP Rights for your startup. International IP protection is expensive and a time-intensive process. For this reason, startups often put IP aside, figuring that a legal team can sort everything out once the company grows. The strongest argument against formally protecting your startup's IP is the cost and the importance. Commonly known that securing IP rights takes money, time, and many others. Startups are in the early stages of business development and may often be short on cash and other resources. Do you know that all this information are totally wrong facts!! Do you want to know why? Because Dubai Copyright Office provides International IP protection in 172 countries including UAE within 10 days ONLY! Moreover, at a very competitive price.

Reasons “TO SECURE” IP Rights for Your Startup

Many startups simply can't afford not to secure rights in their IP by proper IP Protection. A startup doesn't need millions of dollars and a team of attorneys to get IP Protection. Getting international and domestic IP protection by Dubai Copyright Office usually involves only a few small fees and some Preliminary Market Research. The benefits, by comparison, are huge:

(1) Unethically Profiting Competition

Formal IP Protection comes with registration, which puts the world on notice that your objects; works, brand, website, mobile application, software, database belongs to you. This protection can help your company avoid litigation in many cases. Other companies should first check with the domestic authorities and the international authorities to see if material like yours is already in use and registered or no.

(2) Presumption of Ownership

When you successfully gain legal international and domestic rights by Dubai Copyright Office in a copyright, patent “work of since”, or other type of IP, you create a rebuttable presumption that the property belongs to you. In other words, when competition or any another company infringes on your IP and you sue, the court in the country of the violation will presume that the IP belongs to you unless the other company proves otherwise. This position gives you an advantage in violation cases.

(3) Protection from Violation Suits

If your startup doesn't go through the process of IP Strategy then securing IP rights by IP Protection, you have no way of knowing whether what you're using already belongs to someone else. Properly acquiring IP rights protects your startup from expensive violation cases later when you discover that someone else already owns the rights.

(4) The Key Ingredient to Competitive Advantage

“The most critical step in gaining competitive advantage in the MENA region market is intellectual property, which is even more true for tech-based startups into E-commerce, Website development, Mobile Application Development and Software Development that reflects our supportive presence in Dtec Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus The largest tech platform for startups in the Middle East” Sid by Mohamed Nour, IP Consultant at Dubai Copyright Office

(5) Venture Capital and Investors Attraction

If your startup connects with a unique business idea or work of science, not protecting your IP could put your entire business at risk. IP protection advertises stability and security to investors who like to see startups looking for IP Capitalization with a well-established IP Strategy from the beginning.

How Much Does a Copyright Registration Cost?

Are you a an Entrepreneur, Business Owner for an SME or Investor in a Startup and copyright registration would be a priority for you? Are you looking for more information about prices and consultancy about how to start a copyright registration? Mohamed Nour, IP Consultant at Dubai Copyright Office helped many companies with IP Management in UAE, GCC and Middle East. You can contact him directly and ask for a free consultation via Mobile, WhatsApp: +971543525300 or email: [email protected]