REGISTER AND PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS’ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - IP

As an Accredited Agent with the CAC, we usually advise our clients to get protection for their business as at the time of the incorporation. In Nigeria, an earlier registration with the The Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment under any of the Agency takes priority over a CAC Registration.

A brand can protect their business items as:

• Trademark - logo, a word/words, name, tagline, etc
• Patent - Inventions, ideas
• Copyright - works of art like literature or music
• Industrial design - Patterns, methods, formulation, trade secret.

What this means is that you do not exclusively own your brand or enjoy its potential if it is not registered with the relevant government agency. So whatever brand identifiers like logo, colour or contents displayed as inventions, ideas, patterns, formulations, recipes, methods, works of art, trade secrets are attached to your business gives it its uniqueness and ought to be protected whether as a trademark, patent, design or copyright. An IP protection in place secures your interest with investors, venture capitalists, and other competitors.