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8 October 2025 · Articles

CRM Data as a Trade Secret: Are You Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset?

Email addresses and phone numbers are generally readily available so they cannot be trade secrets. But non-public insights such as customer preferences, buying behaviour, pricing history, internal notes, and strategic relationship information, could qualify. Under UK and international trade secret laws information qualifies as a trade secret if it: – Is not generally known or […]

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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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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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Can I still claim on Patent Box if my patents aren’t granted yet?

24 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

Can I still claim on Patent Box if my patents aren’t granted yet?

Can I still claim on Patent Box if my patents aren’t granted yet? You can still claim for the time between patent application and grant Once the patent is granted you can make a claim for the profits arising from the patented product or service, for the time from when the patent application was submitted and the time it took to obtain the granted patent.

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