Intellectual Property is any valuable or tangible creation or output of intellectual activity . IP forms can include inventions, innovations, valuable material, know how and expertise, and educational media. In any form, IP can relate to literary, artistic, clinical processes, educational materials, management systems, and/or scientific works and discoveries.

Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy of our Orientation Handbook: An introduction to intellectual Property (IP) which contains answers to these questions:

• What Intellectual Property awareness programs does the LHD OoC conduct?
• What is Intellectual Property?
• What are Intellectual Property rights?
• How can Intellectual Property rights be recognised and protected?
• How are registered IP rights secured and funded?
• What is involved to register a new development as a patent application?
• Who decides how Intellectual Property rights are handled?
• How is the strategy to exploit IP or IP Rights developed?
• How is a strategy to exploit IP or IP Rights executed?
• What must I do if I have developed Intellectual Property?
• How are Intellectual Property rights and publication coordinated?
• Does loss of novelty through prior Publication preclude registration of IP, especially patents?
• How do IP owners and inventors/creators differ, and what determines authority to exploit IP?
• How does the existence of multiple IP owners and inventors/creators affect authority to exploit IP?
• How will inventors/creators be involved in the IP commercialisation deal activity?
• How are the financial benefits from exploitation of IP managed and distributed?