Underpinning most technology businesses are Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) that can be used to protect business markets and investment. Major IT industry players see this as a major investment protecting their developments from new products to brand images. And there are good reasons to do so. There are (almost) endless groups seeking to mis-represent imitations as the real thing and make a profit from the brand owner’s investments. Cyber criminals can offer complete portfolios of product knowledge and design documentation that will help competitors find their way around registered IPR and come up with low cost alternatives.
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Source: Locklizard