Launching science and technology products on Kickstarter, or any crowdsourcing platform can be intense. I’ve seen a few of my clients launch successfully, but I can tell you from first hand experience, it took a lot of planning, community-building, and strategizing around the product’s intellectual property.

Understanding the Dos and Don’ts of protecting products, brands, designs, and data of a Kickstarter campaign before you launch can save you big. Work the puzzle to see what you know.