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18 December 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, IP Culture, IP Strategy, IP Value, Knowledge, M&A Due Diligence, Trade secrets

The Heart of Your Business: Protecting What Makes You Unique

Imagine pouring your heart and soul into building something special. The late nights, the unwavering dedication, the innovative spark that sets you apart – it’s all woven into the fabric of your business. Your trade secrets are the lifeblood of this creation. They’re the secret ingredient, the unique formulas, the ingenious processes that give you […]

17 December 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, Trade secrets

Firms poach people from others to bring lucrative clients across.

How do Trade Secrets Help? Deloitte sues partners over alleged plot to jump ship The big four firm is suing three partners, who it claims passed business secrets to a rival. They are accused of leaking client secrets to a competitor, as they downloaded swathes of internal data they intended to pass to the other […]

16 December 2024 · Articles, Trade secrets, webinar

Beyond Patents: The Power of Trade Secrets in Competitive Markets.

Business has never been as fast paced and competitive. Leading businesses are using new strategies to protect innovation and competitive advantage. Whether you’re a business owner, head of R&D, or innovation manager, this webinar will provide you with the knowledge and tools to effectively protect your company’s most valuable information. Whilst patents often steal the […]

10 December 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Trade secrets

Why The Reluctance To Manage Trade Secrets?

Poacher Turned Gamekeeper! Poacher Turned Gamekeeper! Information flows easily and we all like someone who is ‘in the know’, better still if it helps our business right? We Have All Done It We have all done it at some stage in our career either knowingly or inadvertently, transferred valuable information from one place to another. […]

9 December 2024 · Articles, Innovation, Investors, Trade secrets

Financial Trading Strategies Protected With Trade Secrets

Hedge funds Millennium and Jane Street settled on the theft of a trading strategy when two traders left one to join the other. It turned out the trading strategy was worth $1bn a year in profit to Jane Street, hence the case. Ryan Baker, an intellectual property lawyer in LA, said the law “contemplates formulas, […]

6 December 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, IP Value, Trade secrets

Risk To Bank Trade Secrets With Employee Mobility

Risk To Bank Trade Secrets With Employee Mobility Everyone can move jobs just not with pockets stuffed with valuable information. ‘Hey I’ve just moved to a new bank and think you might be interested in what we can do for you, especially as ……..you hold a high cash position / or you savings are reaching […]

6 December 2024 · Articles, Trade secrets

452m reasons why trade secrets are valuable for business

Four key employees leave the business to join a competitor taking valuable information with them. A decade later the largest medical devices company approaches the other company to buy them. Only then did Insulet act with a trade secrets misappropriation case and temporary injunction. The net result was $452m in damages. The jury awarded Insulet […]

3 December 2024 · Articles, IP Audit, M&A Due Diligence, Trade secrets

Maximizing Innovation: How IP Audits Can Drive Business Growth

The new code was a game changer. Thank fully before we released it, we did an IP Audit to identify the best way to protect it. We improved protection with intellectual property rights, especially trade secrets, copyright and designs. We clarified how other products supported it and likewise reaffirmed how they were protected. We […]

29 November 2024 · Articles, Brand, IP Strategy, Trademark

Some Re-Brands Make More Sense Than Others!

Some Re-Brands Are Logical To Existing Customers ‘It does what it says on the packet’ Others are ambitious even ‘game changing’, especially when seeking to attract a new target customer. Jeremy Clarkson once described the Jaguar (or jaGuar) driver as flat cap man, and this may well once have been the case. Attention and eyeballs […]

28 November 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Cyber Security, Innovation, Investors, IP Audit, IP Value, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets

How Do You Prefer Your Secrets? Raided or Traded?

The most valuable IP in your business is highly likely to be your trade secrets. A stark reality faces you and that is if you are not actively managing these assets they are probably flooding out of your business with the loss of the associated value and competitive edge. Trade secrets are the fastest growing […]

28 November 2024 · Articles, IP Audit, IP Value, M&A Due Diligence

IP Audit Is More Than Just Patents and Trademarks. It Is About Protecting Value.

Your most valuable business assets are those you cannot see or touch. If you cannot see them how do you know you are protecting all of your value? Business has changed immensely in the quiet economic revolution. Your business is now mainly people, process, platform and code. How can you be sure you are managing […]

25 November 2024 · Articles, Investors, IP Audit, IP Strategy, IP Value

Why Investors Prefer Your IP To Be Protected

A Moat Round Your IP Why else would they invest? They need to know that their investment is safe. That the marauding hoards, your competitors even!, cannot get access to your valuable ideas, results, concepts, contents, brands, and yes secrets. You have got this -A list of all your IP, with clear representation of ownership? […]