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The Britsih Library website has useful information on starting a business and protecting intellectual property. Visit www.bl.uk/bipc.

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Replaces 'The Data Protection Act 1998 - An Introduction' published in October 1998. Sets out the changes to the law and aims to serve as a reference guide to data controllers. Available from http://www.ico.gov.uk/eventual.aspx.

Visit www.intellectual-property.gov.uk for more general information on the concept of intellectual property in the UK.

If you have thought of an invention, idea or design on which you are planning to base your business, it is certainly worth trying to legally protect it, to prevent someone from copying it. Click here to find out how.

Guidance booklet from the Patent office, detailing how to draft a Confidential Disclosure Agreement to enable inventors to talk with inventors, manufacturers or designers while keeping their invention secret. Click here to download it.

Creating Value from your Intangible Assets. A free guide from the DTI on managing assets such as reputation, intellectual property, knowledge and relationships. Click here to download the guide.