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I Have Marketing Stategies, Need Legal Advice.

Posted by Anonymous on 3/24/2010 at 4:37 PM ET 50 Points
i have found an opportunity to advertise/market small sme there products and services to one another.i believe the concept is called partnering.but the idea i have is that each client instead of paying each other for the advertising costs/marketing - they pay me a monthly fee or percentage of profits - for the marketing strategyie for getting parties together and application of idea.my problem is they can go round my back and do it themselves.i need legal advice - i need to generate more income for now - as a student and as a self-employed person.my idea is simple and practical - i did approach first clt - they were keen.

what if i approach business (a) tell them a marketing concept - they turn around,and say that they have thought about it already - but chose not to implement it.but 2 weeks later - they do implement -can a legal doc be drawn up before concept is shared.i mean why should they only benefit if i generated income for them.


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  • Posted by Peter (henna gaijin) on 3/25/2010 at 12:51 PM Accepted
    Much depends on what country you are in, and how they handle intellectual property. Because that is what your idea is.

    The idea could possibly be protected under a patent (if your country allows protection of ideas in patents). But this is likely expensive.

    I would likely just try to choose who I tell this to very carefully. And choose carefully what information you give out (like avoid giving out names of the other partners, if possible).
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