{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"In The Trenches","title":"Intellectual Property for Business Owners: How to Protect and Monetise Your IP | with Juan Perez","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2643,"description":"Most business owners are sitting on valuable intellectual property and have no idea. And by the time they realise it, someone else may have already claimed it.\n\nIn this episode of In The Trenches, Hanif Ibrahim sits down with Juan Perez, IP lawyer and founder of Quest Legal, for a conversation that will completely change how you think about your brand, your systems, and your business's most undervalued assets.\n\nJuan walks through how global brands like Apple, Nike, and even KFC have turned intellectual property into extraordinary enterprise value — and explains how the same principles apply to businesses of every size.\n\nWhat Juan covers:\n- What intellectual property actually includes — and why it's far broader than most people realise\n- The four main types of IP (trademarks, patents, copyright, trade secrets) and when each matters\n- Why your brand is likely your most valuable and most vulnerable asset\n- The specific IP risks that Australian small and medium businesses face and largely ignore\n- How to register, protect, and enforce your IP before someone else does\n- How IP strategy can become a genuine competitive moat and growth accelerator\n- Real examples of businesses that lost millions through IP ignorance\n\nAfter this episode, you will look at your business differently.\n\nBrought to you by The Finance Agency — salary-paid finance brokers helping Australian business owners build real enterprise value. financeagency.com.au\n\n#IntellectualProperty #IPLaw #BusinessLaw #Trademarks #BusinessPodcast #InTheTrenches #BrandProtection #Entrepreneurship #BusinessStrategy","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8ymsEg8Ghd07PPTvrY7eQXsu2sn0A8bNgWs4xQjipTs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lODRi/MGVhNDFjNTVjNzZi/MzFlOTI5N2EyOWFh/MzFjMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}