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Inventors, designers, entrepreneurs, writers and other creative and business people are often interested in protecting their ideas and business inventions. But how do you protect a new invention, or the brand name of a product, or the words of a song? Through patents, industrial designs, trade-marks and copyright—and sometimes as trade secrets too. This script discusses these forms of what the law calls “intellectual property,” starting with patents.