Intellectual property protection comes in many forms depending on the particular material one wish to seek protection over. Generally, however, intellectual property protection provides and original author, designer, or inventor the exclusive rights to a new and/or distinct material, and thus prevents others from doing the same with that same material. Registering trademarks, copyrights, and patents is not particularly necessary. However, it is encouraged as a way of establishing official evidence of originality. In establishing a trademark, a producer of goods and/or services gains protects against others using marks that may cause consumer confusion. In the case of copyrights, authors of original expressed work protect their material against others reproducing, selling, or displaying it in instances that are not of fair use. Moreover, patents protect original inventors from their creations being made, used, sold or imported by another party.