{"id":35558,"date":"2019-07-25T08:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T02:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:10:56","slug":"basic-ip-practices-for-smes-indian-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/basic-ip-practices-for-smes-indian-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic IP Practices for SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This post was first published on <span id=\"timestamp\">August 6th, 2013.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Intellectual Property (IP) can play an important role in taking a SME to the next level in business, provided the company takes the right steps in the right direction. While the nature of IP actions to be undertaken by an organisation varies from company to company, there are some basic practices that every company must take to keep the option of taking advantage of IP, open. The upcoming editions of this column will cover some of the most important IP practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The first step towards realizing value from IP is, gaining an understanding of what IP can do for an organisation. In other words, IP awareness is the first step towards a company&#8217;s IP success. IP awareness has to basic prongs, one, knowing what IP is, and two, learning how it can help a business. There are quite a few free, yet very effective materials available on IP for SMEs, which will help in IP learning. Some of the sources and their links are provided hereunder:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Open and Free online IP courses for businesses &#8211; www.onlineipcourses.com;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">IP resources such as blogs &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/sinapse-blog\">bananaip.com\/sinapse<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spicyipindia.blogspot.in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.spicyipindia.blogspot.in<\/a>;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">IP Radio &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosinapse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.radiosinapse.com<\/a>; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">WIPO Case Studies and Articles on SMES &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/sme\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/sme\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The next edition of this column will talk about integrating IP protection strategy with business goals of a company.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article discusses the basic intellectual property practices every SME should adopt to maximise business potential. It stresses the importance of IP awareness and provides useful resources for Indian SMEs. The next edition will address integrating IP protection with business strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,75],"tags":[7620,5,9132,2304,10305,10304,366,1121],"class_list":["post-35558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-start-ups","tag-indian-business","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip-awareness","tag-ip-protection","tag-online-ip-courses","tag-sme-strategy","tag-smes","tag-wipo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139607,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558\/revisions\/139607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}