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Reasonable Steps and Trade Secret Protection
Reasonable Steps and Trade Secret Protection
While companies are starting to better appreciate the role trade secrets can play in underpinning their intellectual capital, proactive trade secret management is still a very much neglected activity.
The Value of a Confidentiality Agreement
The Value of a Confidentiality Agreement
One of the most important developments in the world economy has been the increased importance of ideas and innovation.
IP Monetization: 4 Categories for Consideration
IP Monetization: 4 Categories for Consideration
Because IP monetization covers a wide range of business and legal activities, it is important to provide some examples.
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: Final Considerations
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: Final Considerations
After termination or expiration, the company should require the manufacturer to provide extensive transition services to the company.
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: Security Procedures for Access, Storage, and Transmission (Part 12)
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: Security Procedures for Access, Storage, and Transmission (Part 12)
The licensing of the company’s trade secrets and other IP should be consistent with the company’s identification of its trade secrets and other IP and appropriately limited in scope.
Anti-Patent Leadership Taking IEEE-SA on The Road to Knowhere? Part I
Anti-Patent Leadership Taking IEEE-SA on The Road to Knowhere? Part I
As I noted previously, over the past five years or so, the IEEE has been captured by the implementer lobby and its advocates.
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: Obligations Concerning Manufacturer’s Employees and Contractors (Part 11)
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: Obligations Concerning Manufacturer’s Employees and Contractors (Part 11)
While not always possible given local labor laws, to the extent possible, the company should require the manufacturer to adopt protocols to govern a termination of the manufacturer’s employees
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: The Manufacturer Relationship (Part 10)
Outsourced Manufacturing and Trade Secrets: The Manufacturer Relationship (Part 10)
The outsourced manufacturing agreement should require procedures that limit access to the company’s confidential information to specific