9 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 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 […]
Read More19 January 2025 · Articles, Information Security, Knowledge Transfer, NDA, Partnerships, Trade secrets
𝗟𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀, 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁! ‘We are in a partnership so it will be good’. ‘We have an NDA so we can tell them everything’. ‘Working in cafes in Scandinavia it is fine you can go […]
Read More28 November 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Cyber Security, Innovation, Investors, IP Audit, IP Value, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
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 […]
Read More7 November 2024 · Innovation, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Partnerships
The human species survived because we could communicate and share ideas about what worked and what did not. How to light a fire using flints and tinder, how best to catch a woolly mammoth, how to successfully raise crops on clay based of soil; you get the idea. We innovate better when ideas from different […]
Read More5 November 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, M&A Due Diligence, NDA, Partnerships, Tech Transfer, Trade secrets
The jury also found that the trade secret theft was willful and malicious, allowing the Court to potentially triple the total damages! Choose your partners carefully. You are flattered when Big Co who also happens to provide your major route to market offers to buy your business. It has been 13 years of hard slog […]
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15 October 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Knowledge Transfer, NDA, Partnerships, Trade secrets
‘We have an NDA so it is fine we can share everything’! How much value is being lost from your business via sensitive information and knowledge being shared with partners with whom you have an NDA? An NDA is not a cover all. Ideally an NDA is nothing more than a ‘permit to have a […]
Read More14 October 2024 · Confidential Information, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
Post-Termination Restrictive Covenants Are Not Immune From Government Interference. Governments around the world including the UK, US, and European governments are reviewing post-termination restrictive covenants (non competes) in an effort to make sure innovation and growth is not stifled. The UK Government makes their position clear: “non-compete clauses represent one of the strongest restraints of […]
Read More23 September 2024 · Knowledge Transfer, M&A Due Diligence, Tech Transfer, Trade secrets
Employee joins another company, transfers valuable knowledge to develop competing products! AbbVie has at least three trade secrets law suits like this underway at the moment: “AbbVie lawsuit says rival Adcentrx stole anti-cancer secrets” “AbbVie sues rival BeiGene over alleged theft of cancer therapy secrets” “Botox rival Revance loses bid to dismiss Allergan trade secrets […]
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27 June 2024 · Innovation, IP Strategy, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
THE MOST IMPORTANT STUFF IS NOT IN THE PATENT It is held in the head of the operator. This is the know-how that makes the system work at all times. It may be the 30 year veteran who just knows (by the change in the sound of the machine) that it is time to add the ingredient!
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12 June 2024 · Entrepreneurship, Innovation, IP Strategy, Knowledge Transfer, Tech Transfer
Attract the best talented AI coders to come and live and work in your area, AI will then be transferred to local people and companies, helping the economy.
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