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When Is Trade Secret Protection the Right Choice?

The IP Law Blog

Companies rely on intellectual property (“IP”) rights to protect their valuable information, creations, and branding. IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) states, ” a trademark protects brand names and logos used on goods and services.

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When Is Trade Secret Protection the Right Choice?

LexBlog IP

Companies rely on intellectual property (“IP”) rights to protect their valuable information, creations, and branding. IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. A patent protects an invention. As the U.S. Copyright Office.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Newly promoted principals for 2022 are: Michael Ballanco focuses his practice on all aspects of patent infringement matters at the trial and appellate level. and foreign patent prosecution and counseling in the technology areas of bioinformatics, mobile communications, e-commerce, database, and data processing.

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Intent-to-Use Trademark Application: Comprehensive Guide

LexBlog IP

Retroactive Protection from the Date of Filing. What “Use In Commerce” Means: Territorial, Interstate, and Foreign Commerce. If you begin an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s TEAS System, you will encounter the following: “1(a) – Actually using the mark in commerce now”. “1(b) Lower Risk.

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Recent Hot Topics and Developments in Trade Secrets Law

Trading Secrets

Plaintiff eventually moved for summary judgment on its federal and state trade secret misappropriation claims, arguing that the defendant improperly took plaintiff’s confidential information, including bidding sheets, internal costs, manuals, and other techniques developed internally and exclusively for plaintiff’s own use.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

This applies to companies that have never taken serious steps to protect intellectual property and companies that understand the value of intellectual property and take active steps to secure and protect those assets. . Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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Trademark Extraterritoriality: Abitron v. Hetronic Doesn’t Go the Distance (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Hetronic International Inc. , Despite a partially harmonized international intellectual property system, IP laws are fundamentally territorial. In one of the last opinions announced this term, Abitron Austria GmbH v. The Context for IP Extraterritoriality Analysis At the outset, let’s identify the major values at stake in the case.