When you are a businessperson, creating your own intellectual property can be a rewarding experience. However, finding out that someone has gone ahead and misused or misrepresented your intellectual property can be incredibly frustrating. You might want to take these offenders to court, but you are new to this kind of problem. What do you do? How will things play out in court? This is the way things will usually work if you approach an attorney in this field. First, he or she will need to discover that the infringement is occurring and track down this person. Next, they will more than likely send a cease-and-desist letter. This is sometimes enough for the person to stop misusing your protected material. If they do not stop, a final notification and letter of intent to sue will be sent to this person. The attorney will then file a complaint and have an investigation take place. The last step is a course case.