Professional advice
Professionals who belong to the Institute of Trade Mark
Attorneys 
and the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys are especially useful
in helping you obtain and understand your IP rights.
The Law Society can usually supply the details of
suitable solicitors in your area. It is also possible to get advice from certain barristers who are
licensed for public access from the Bar Council .
Other sources of advice include:
- Business
Link can provide advice on exploiting
your ideas.
- Enterprise Europe Network (EEN)
are a European wide network,
with a number of centres in the UK. Each can provide consulting services on
IP rights.
- NESTA ,The
National Endowment for Science, Technology and
the Arts provide a useful handbook on invention and innovation.
There
are a number of other organisations geared specifically to helping inventors, especially lone inventors,
to bring their ideas to market, and to provide advice on finding financial assistance. For example,
The Institute of Patentees and Inventors (IPI) is a non-profit making organisation
that specifically helps lone inventors.