Intellectual Property toolkit

Intellectual Property Toolkit

As a business owner, your creativity, innovation, and brand identity are what makes your business unique. Protecting these valuable assets through intellectual property (IP) safeguards your work and ensures that your ideas, designs, and creative works cannot be stolen. Whether you are just starting out or looking to grow your business, this IP Toolkit is designed to help you navigate the complexities that IP can have. You can find top tips, essential resources and real-life stories from other women entrepreneurs to help you learn about and find guidance on how to protect your intellectual property. With the right IP strategy in place, you can confidently build, expand, and protect your brand.  

Learn the basics of Intellectual Property  

• Intellectual Property: The basics 

Discover our helpful IP checklist 

• Intellectual Property checklist 

Realising the potential of your IP  

• Changing perceptions – women and IP  

Read real life stories of women entrepreneurs and their experience with IP

• Learning your IP lesson 
• Beware – you don’t ‘own’ a trade mark

Free IP support and advice

• BIPC Glasgow: supporting women with IP

At Women’s Enterprise Scotland, we have an on-going focus on policy influence and development which is why we established the Women in Enterprise Cross Party Group (CPG). Our May 2024 CPG was focussed on Intellectual Property and the Economic Impact on Women Owned businesses. You can find the minutes for this meeting on the Scottish Parliament website.