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This paper is an attempt to show how is the registration of intellectual property important in improving and sustaining the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) competitiveness. It enables SME to conquer its competitors and provides a source to finance research and development, it improves its negotiation power in licensing contracts and related issues, it also prepares it to become a big enterprise and increases its assets. In fact, when its intellectual property is registerd, the SME faces several difficulties mainly the search in intellectual property data bases, the lawsuit costs and the filing fees. These costs will, certainly, hinder the SME to keep its competitive advantage and may affect its research and development activities. These ideas indicate the difficulties facing SME. Henceforth, this paper will focus upon the solutions allowing SME to benefit from registration and reduce its costs at the same time.
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