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Can you copyright protect a new online business idea assuming you describe the business plan in detail to the USPTO?

You can copyright a written business plan by filing a simple document with the Copyright Office. However, merely registering your copyright in the business plan document will probably not provide your new business with much meaningful protection. If you wish to prevent competitors from starting businesses with similar business plans, then you should be thinking about whether there are new, useful, and non-obvious aspects of your business plan that you can patent. That said, at the present...

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