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Entering overseas markets
Considerations when choosing how to enter an overseas market.
Intellectual property crime and your business
IP crime is widespread and growing, and has serious economic, quality and safety impacts
Protecting intellectual property
How to conduct an audit of your business' intellectual property rights and take steps to protect and secure your IP
Get patent protection for your business
Find out how to patent a product, and protect your ideas or inventions by applying for a patent and securing your patent rights
Trade marks
Introduction to trade marking – how to choose, search for, register and protect trade marks in the UK or abroad
Design right and registration
How to protect the value of your designs through unregistered design rights and design registration
Copyright for your business
What is copyright, how to use this legal right to protect your creative work and what to do if someone violates it
Protecting your intellectual property abroad
Understand how to secure and enforce your intellectual property rights internationally, and register your patents, trade marks and designs overseas
Manage your research, design and development
How to manage your design, research and development projects to adapt to customers' changing requirements
Use innovation to start or grow your business
What is innovation and why should new and existing businesses innovate in order to increase their efficiency and profitability
Find support for inventors
Support and advice for inventors and businesses developing innovative ideas, products and technologies in Northern Ireland
Checks HMRC will carry out against the criteria
HMRC will carry out checks to see if you meet the criteria for receiving AEO status.
Applying for AEO status
Find out how to apply for AEO status.
Where the AEO status is recognised
Find out where your AEO status is recognised.
Checklist of export packaging considerations
Protecting your goods from damage and securing them from theft are key considerations in export packaging.
What to mark on your package for export
How to ensure safe transportation of your goods by using visible, durable and standardised handling instructions.
Checklist for getting your export packaging right
Issues your business should consider before packaging your goods, from packaging waste rules to insurance implications.
Your export packaging options
The ways you can choose to ship your goods, from loose and unpacked to palletised and containerised.
What is export packaging?
Explaining the three main types of layered packaging to use when preparing your export goods for transport.
Where to buy export packaging and labels
How your business can find reliable suppliers of export packaging and sources of knowledge and expertise in the sector.