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The Intellectual Property Office can help you get the right type of protection for your creation or invention.

Intellectual Property (IP) is created when an idea takes some tangible form. IP can mean a brand, invention, design or other kind of creation and it can be legally owned. But how can that help you? See Why use IP?

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