So you have a million-dollar idea. So what?

Your ideas aren’t anything if you don’t protect yourself.

In 2006, the majority of counterfeit products seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection came from China.

Think you can get by with just brains and brawn? Think again.

If you have a hot ticket idea, you need to insure it. Safeguard it. Patent it. Protect it.

Even before you think about discussing your idea with anyone else, educate yourself on the process of creative protection.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has all the information you need to know about how to protect against intellectual property theft.

In fact, there is a seminar coming up in early November that will be discussing how prevention is the ultimate protection.

It up to every entrepreneur to make this very serious issue a priority.