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29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, IP Value, Knowledge, Trade secrets

‘I thought it was rude’. They were calling clients asking they join them at their new company!

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 […]

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22 May 2024 · IP Education, IP Strategy, IP Value

Should We Be Worried That Chinese Education on IP is Much Better Than Ours ?

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 […]

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12 March 2024 · Articles, IP Value, Trademark

Searching for IP case studies – dig deeper

IP is hidden from view The thing about IP is that it is not visible and the disasters are often swept under the carpet. Consider the #VW #RollsRoyce #BMW trademark issue 25 years ago that no one has heard about. Here the IP was hidden from view in that the #trademark was held in another […]

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26 February 2024 · Articles, IP Value

Entrepreneurs think about IP when it is too late

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 […]

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23 November 2023 · IP Value, Trade secrets

How to acquire a $multi billion business for free?!

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 […]

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23 November 2023 · Innovation, IP Value

Are you leaking valuable assets from your business without realising it?

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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#compeition #movingjobs #noncompetes #knowhow

20 November 2023 · Innovation, IP Value, Trade secrets

What happens if your people go to your competitor?

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.

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3 January 2023 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

Alpha dog on your side or Wolfpack on your trail?

Start-Up Intellectual Property can be either. Get your start up business intellectual property right and it will bark for you, and send warning that you have your intellectual property sorted. Leave intellectual property too late in your success and you will make it easy for the poachers, copycats and intellectual property wolves to feast on […]

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31 December 2022 · Articles, IP Value

How strong is your weakest link?

Private images from your home shared by your robot vacuum cleaner! iRobot are not pleased with their image annotation service provider since the company or more likely a rogue employee shared private images (someone in the bathroom) from trials in people’s homes with MIT who then published them in an article on privacy. Not good […]

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