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22 August 2024 · Articles, Trade secrets

Every Business Has Trade Secrets, Most Don’t Think They Have.

Every Business Has Trade Secrets, Most Don’t Think They Have. Trade Secrets We Don’t have Any Of Those It’s So Secret We Don’t Like To Talk About It It’s So Secret We Don’t Even Acknowledge It Sometimes trade secrets are kept so secret they do not officially exist. Most times trade secrets have not been […]

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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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5 March 2023 · Articles, Innovation

‘Our most valuable assets walk out the door each day’.

How to reduce the impact when your assets leave for good? More than 250,000 tech job layoffs in 2023 so far!As we all know big companies under pressure from investors move fast to demonstrate efficiencies and many have seen their stock rise following layoff announcements. Moving quickly means mistakes have been made and valuable assets […]

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25 January 2023 · Articles, Copyright

What is Passing Off?

Even if you are called Harold a launching your business called ‘Harolds’ using the same font and the gold and green colouration as ‘Harrods’ the luxury department store is not going to work too well. Passing off is where a business sells goods or services under the pretence that they are the those of another. […]

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25 January 2023 · Articles, Trade secrets

Should I insist on an NDA?

Yes Would you lend someone your car without it being insured? Why would you then share your confidential information, secret sauce, how you achieve competitive advantage etc. all resting on the hope that the receiver of that information will not take it elsewhere? They may not even share it deliberately, they may do it without […]

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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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18 December 2022 · Articles, Innovation

Patents in the world cup football?

It’s all kicking off No longer a bunch of plastic shapes stitched and glued together this year’s FIFA World Cup football is a technological powerhouse as well Using technology developed by German company Kinexon the ball can now accurately measure that Luis Chavez struck the ball at 121.69 kmh to score against Saudi Arabia. It […]

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