You have an idea that won't leave you alone. It keeps finding its way back into your thoughts until you finally decide to do something about it.

Maybe it's a business. A screenplay. A song. A novel. A podcast. An app. A design. Maybe you've already spent weeks, months, or years bringing it to life.

You want to tell people about it. You also don't. Because what if someone takes it?

That question has crossed the mind of almost every creator. Sometimes it keeps us from sharing our work. Sometimes it keeps us from starting at all.

I've had this conversation with clients, founders, artists and creators throughout my career as an intellectual property lawyer. It almost always begins with the same sentence.

"I have an idea. I want to patent it."

This episode starts there.

We'll explore what intellectual ...