29 May 2024 · Articles, Health and Wellness
In 1970 one in ten British adults was living with obesity; now it is almost one in three. Obesity is the second biggest cause of cancer. Obese people are 5 more likely to get diabetes. Diabetes costs the UK £23bn a year. Studies show diabetes can be reversed by changing what we eat! I attended […]
Read More29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, Trademark
Think Ahead On Trademark Registration As Changes Are Not Free! WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 5 YEARSWhen registering your trademarks it is always worth spending the time thinking about where you will be within 5 years. MANAGE YOUR PARTNERSHIPS CAREFULLY‘Dry January’ was registered in 2013 for ‘educational purposes’, by a charity Alcohol Change UK. They […]
Read More29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, IP Value, Knowledge, Trade secrets
This is the reality in most companies. Watch this business owner describe how ex- employees contacted his clients asking them to join them in their new venture. What else were they going to do? If the client list were defined as a #tradesecret and #contracts stipulated, they could not remove this, then there would have […]
Read More22 May 2024 · IP Education, IP Strategy, IP Value
Standards of Education ‘The average 11 year old in China knows more about IP than PhD students in the UK’, Ian Harvey, Professor Imperial College London. IP Value With the majority of the value in any business today being protected by IP should we be concerned that IP education is so poor? UK IP Education […]
Read More21 May 2024 · NDA, Trade secrets
The short answer is No! CASE LAW In the L’Oréal v Olaplex case the NDA language was found to be ambiguous. Also there are more cases in the USA where NDAs are not found to be sufficient or within reasonable measures. CONTRACTS Yes you do need NDAs but you also need specific contracts and a […]
Read More20 May 2024 · Articles
Now The optimal time to prepare for your intellectual property is now! Ostrich Strategy Get round to it later or the ‘put your head in the sand’, is just storing up problems for later. Trademark Disputes For example why wait until your business is up and running and making great progress to find that someone […]
Read More16 May 2024 · Copyright, Entrepreneurship, Trademark
The short answer is you can’t. The longer answer is you can protect your company name, brand, reputation, innovation, creativity and knowledge using intellectual property rights. You can protect your company name with trademarks. Copyright and Intellectual Property are used interchangeably but they should not be really. I am John Pryor, making IP accessible and […]
Read More15 May 2024 · Trade secrets
Trade Secrets cover a lot of valuable information in your business, you just need to make sure you have taken the steps to list them and protect them.
Read More13 May 2024 · IP Strategy, Trade secrets
Sadly with Intellectual Property, many companies only get active when they have been hit with an issue, this is an expensive strategy.
Read More9 May 2024 · Innovation, Knowledge, Trade secrets
Where Does Your Business Hold Its Knowledge: In People’s Minds or within Systems? Most corporate knowledge is stored in the heads of employees, which means it leaves every day and occasionally does not return.
Read More19 April 2024 · Articles
Dawn Chorus Nature’s Symphony or Secrets revealed? What are people saying about you and your business in the coffee shops, bars, restaurants, taxis, trains and online? We all like to chat: ‘What’s the gossip?’ ‘What’s going on?’ ‘Have you heard’? ‘Did you know?’ What if your financial information for example this quarter’s sales figures, that […]
Read More19 April 2024 · IP Strategy, Trade secrets
All is fair in love and war! The Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli. Is publishing a new book: ‘The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power’. The book reveals that Amazon hired employees from a rival (Trader Joe’s) to learn sales and profit information about product lines. The […]
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