In an era when small business owners have moved more and more to quantity over substance, annoyed consumers have started a migration toward substance. Even more startling, search engines have been developing new technologies to do qualitative analyses on sites. In some cases, humans are sent to check on sites that raise red flags.
Intellectual property (IP) is a list of distinct types of legal monopolies over creations of the idea, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding areas of law. Under intellectual property law, owners have exclusive rights to some intangibles such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, breakthroughs, and inventions; and words. phrases, symbols, and designs. There are four main types of intellectual property – trade secrets, patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
