17 April 2025 · Articles
There is a startling increase in patent troll litigation, up 44% Q1 25 vs Q1 22-24, the greatest rate of increase in the last 10 years Four reasons why patent troll litigation is set to increase further: – Courts more pro patent than they have been both US and Europe (UPC) – Change in the […]
Read More11 April 2025 · Articles, Trade secrets
Trade secret leaks are damaging to the football club’s competitive edge says Tottenham Hotspur Manager Ange Postecoglou. Postecoglou is getting ready to dig his spurs in. Manager Postecoglou said: ‘There is no doubt we have got a leak inside the club. Sensitive information has leaked have all year. It doesn’t help us, because we don’t […]
Read More9 April 2025 · Articles, Brand, Confidential Information, Counterfeit, Fakes, Information Security, Innovation, Investors, Patents
It is a fact of. business life that you will hit the IP risks and bumps at some stage: These may include the following IP risks: Trademark musical chairs ! Copyright flattery (or not)? Trusted colleague as was. Reputation under threat. Information theft. Patent bullying by a big kid. Social media lock out Fakes IP […]
Read More9 April 2025 · Articles, Information Security, Know-How, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
Trade secrets are the most valuable, coveted yet risky assets within your business. Your people pose the greatest threat to your trade secrets but also offer the best defence! Most information security and trade secret programmes tend to focus their efforts in the wrong areas: The Corporate Response is to Focus in The Wrong Areas […]
Read More4 March 2025 · Articles
This is because there is a general ‘fuzziness about what proprietary data is’? Tim Schnurr, Partner at LeastTrust I first worked with Tim in 2010 at the world’s leading patent and IP brokerage ICAP Ocean Tomo, he has a very unique skill set combining IP, proprietary data, cyber security with economics. Today on our podcast […]
Read More26 February 2025 · Articles
Let’s be honest it is not going to make much difference to my running, except maybe ‘feeling the part’. The running shoe patent arms race is hotting up with litigation in hot pursuit. Apparently, a bit of carbon in the mid sole and nitrogen in the foam of the sole makes a big difference and […]
Read More26 February 2025 · Articles
Few businesses survive forty years never mind one hundred and forty years. Even if they do very few of their brands and trademarks survive the duration. Bottle tops off to Coca Cola for one of the most loved and enduring brands ever. It is only a fizzy drink but Coca Cola have built up the […]
Read More25 February 2025 · Articles
Are we looking at cyber security from the wrong angle? Protecting privacy data is crucial in any business but are we doing enough to protect proprietary data? Yes ransom hackers want your privacy data such as credits card, id, date of birth etc But state sponsored hackers want your valuable AI code, algorithms, your research […]
Read More24 February 2025 · Articles
Cyber Security is Focussed on Privacy Data and Not Proprietary Data. Cyber security has focussed on protecting private employee data and not proprietary business assets like trade secrets. How do I know this? Because very few businesses have identiffied, captured and classified their proprietary data, thus it is not protected. If a business has not […]
Read More16 February 2025 · Articles
Create Your Own Pizza (Oven) Just don’t Steal Mine Successful Scottish pizza oven maker and family business Ooni know how protect their valuable brand, reputation, innovation, creativity and know-how. Ooni started out thirteen years ago designing the perfect pizza oven and Ooni sold £200m worth last year. They quickly learned that their success led to […]
Read More10 February 2025 · Articles
Coca Cola is the sixth most valuable brand in the world, could it have been even more valuable if it had kept hold of its full name? Coca Cola’s big branding mistake according to Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway) was losing half of the famous trademark. Cola is now accepted as a generic term for a […]
Read More10 February 2025 · AI, Confidential Information, Contracts, Cyber Security, Information Security, Innovation, Know-How, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
A US Federal Reserve official leaked trade secrets while being paid US$450,000 to ‘teach’ at a Chinese university. This is the allegation by US prosecutors. John Rogers shared the information with Chinese intelligence officers who posed as graduate students from a Chinese university. The secret information was from the Federal Reserve’s powerful interest rate-setting committee […]
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