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West Lafayette, Indiana - The United States celebrated entrepreneurs and their startups during National Small Business Week, May 5-8, including those companies based on intellectual property. Intellectual property includes creative works, inventions and other products of human intellect and imagination. Protecting intellectual property could be the first step in delivering it to the public as new products and processes.

The Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization works with faculty and staff located at all Purdue University campuses. The office's patent managers confer with researchers to determine if intellectual property should be protected and, if so, the best means. These are the methods of intellectual property protection offered by the office:

Entrepreneurs can learn more about intellectual property protection by contacting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.