29 February 2024 · Articles, Innovation, Trade secrets
You business is innovative yet you are in danger of losing good ideas Capture and value innovation and creativity or lose it You business is #innovative yet you are in danger of losing good ideas Peter Thiel co-founder of #PayPal says the most valuable companies are those that can maintain their inventiveness. Innovation strategy, culture, […]
Read More28 February 2024 · Articles, Cyber Security, Trade secrets
What does your cyber security programme defend? The answer is stuff! Meaning all the valuable and critical data and processes, needed to run the business. If you break this down you identify a series of confidential and sensitive information that you would not like your competitors to get hold of, because it would provide them […]
Read More26 February 2024 · Articles, IP Value
Most entrepreneurs think about IP when it is already too late. Think about IP early on in your business journey. Why? Because you will be developing your brand, reputation, innovation and knowledge from the start. This is all IP and it is really difficult to protect and contain it after the event. Your IP You […]
Read More26 February 2024 · Articles, Trademark
Choose your trademark or brand name carefully Why? Because you do not want to attract the attention of Facebook, Paypal, Hugo Boss, Harrods or LVMH, worried about trademark similarity misleading their customers. Your trademark (registered or not), is the mark under which you do your business and you want it to reflect your product or […]
Read More23 February 2024 · Articles, Copyright, Design, Innovation, Trademark
What does the intellectual property (IP) jargon mean? Why is there so much jargon in IP? What are the key IP terms? Too many people confuse the terms, because IP ‘jargonese’ is designed to keep us out! Think about it developing your own language provides barriers to entry and jobs for life. Education on IP […]
Read More22 February 2024 · Articles, Innovation
To patent or not to patent? To patent or not to patent? Patents are not what they used to be, because if you patent in one country then the whole world gets to learn about your invention and if in a country where your patent is not inforce they will be free to use your […]
Read More23 November 2023 · IP Value, Trade secrets
Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for free!!! They hired across the CEO other leaders and the vast majority of the people in the business. That is 10 years of expertise, know-how and trade secrets – lost just like that. How do you stop this happening to you? Put employment contracts in place to restrict what employees […]
Read More23 November 2023 · Innovation, IP Value
8h • Edited • Are you leaking valuable assets from your business without realising it? ‘They haven’t got their heads around what unrealised assets they have in their business’ Intanify interview: 23s snippet of the interview, with me by Intanify Head of Knowledge Management, Marios Georgiou. We walk through exactly why spending time discovering what […]
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20 November 2023 · Innovation, IP Value, Trade secrets
Your staff will move to your competitor with your knowledge assets. What if they take others with them? People have a right to move jobs. They do not have a right to take your (defined) #secrets and #confidentialinformation with them.
Read More15 March 2023 · Articles, Innovation
Where does your best innovation happen? Can good innovation really occur from home?
Read More15 March 2023 · Innovation, IP Value
If data is the new oil then intellectual property is the new gold. Combine the two together and you get hot innovation. At least that is what start-up Deep Green has done at the Exmouth swimming pool.
Read More15 March 2023 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value
What is the most important intellectual property protection for your business? Educating your employees on business intellectual property. Ten reasons why training your team on intellectual property makes great sense for your business.
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