Sports and Intellectual Property

By: George Miller

While at first this may seem strange, you only need to think for a moment about all of the creative aspects that go into sports. There’s actually a great deal of protectable intellectual property in many different areas.

To go over a few of the ways that intellectual property matters in sports, we’ll touch upon four of the most notable areas: technology, branding, design and licenses/sponsorships.

Technology

Sports technologists are constantly developing better sports equipment with creative and innovative designs and concepts to enhance performance and make the products safer, better and more effective.

From swimsuits to tennis rackets, there is always something that can be improved with cutting-edge ideas that qualify for IP protection, spurring inventors to learn how to patent an idea and ensure the rights to their ingenuity.

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