Companies must be able to prove ownership of their ideas—and that’s becoming an increasingly difficult task. Today’s engineers and designers can’t just point to their hard copy notebooks in which they sketched out designs or wrote product notes. Instead, the proof of their creations and ideas might be scattered across a dozen web-based apps. Extracting that proof and presenting it to a court is a challenge for which many companies haven’t adequately prepared.
Thankfully, Hanzo is here to help. This Guide starts by defining IP and explaining its importance before turning to the more challenging questions:
- What data do companies need to prove ownership of ideas, and where does that data live?
- Why is IP data hard to manage?
- And most importantly, what should companies do to protect their IP by preserving the data that proves it’s theirs?
