Protect and survive - [management IP protection]

Talk of recession is all around us. For some businesses that is bad news as orders dry up, forcing redundancies and even bankruptcy. Yet for others, business contraction in one area has actually resulted in a positive outcome in another. The marketplace has many resilient entrepreneurs who are determined not to let the downturn beat them. In some cases, rather than plough the same furrow only to see diminishing returns, they have chosen to approach matters in a different way. As the recession bites and companies try to safeguard their futures by tightening their belts, now is a good time to get on top of intellectual property protection.