A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), or confidentiality agreement, is a contract you sign with a person or entity in order to ensure that they do not divulge some key information about your business. The information you want to protect is clearly set out in the NDA and only binds you and the person or entity you are signing the NDA with.

You can sign a NDA at any time, before or after your company has been registered.

The sanctions for infringing the NDA are also set out in the NDA.

Intellectual property (IP) represents creations of the mind or intellect that can be legally owned. Intellectual property rights include patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Intellectual property rights can be considered a lucrative asset if there are plans to sell the business, merge with another company, secure funding or embark on a joint venture. 

In order to protect your start up brand name and the logos used on goods and services of the company it is important to register your trademark. 

If the activity of your start up is related to artistic or literary work, computer software, video films and audio-visual works it is important to protect your work with copyright protection. 

Check out the Ministry of Economy and Trade Complete Guide to the registration process for trademark, patent and copyrights protection. 

Proceed with online registration for trademarks on portal.economy.gov.lb.

Download the related fees for patents, trademarks, and copyrights and related works.