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World IP Day 2021 – Focus on IP and SMEs

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Your IP creates a strong shield, allowing you to commercialise your business and safely participate in the market. Every business starts with an idea that takes shape in someone’s mind before making its way to market. Designers and marketers are not IP experts, so cannot fill this vacuum. Turning Ideas Into a Business.

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Trade Secrets Without Borders: The Defend Trade Secret Act’s Promise as an Extra-Territorial Statute Finally Comes to Pass

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This blog post summarizes these recent decisions. 6, 2021) (finding that allowing individuals in the United States to take an assessment that was the subject matter of trade secret litigation and disclosing trade secrets to a web developer in Florida met the “in furtherance” requirement), and the U.S. And the U.S.

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Intent-to-Use Trademark Application: Comprehensive Guide

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Home » Blog. For sophisticated businesses with large marketing budgets and new products, it is strategically wise to file an Intent-to-Use trademark application. headquartered company and a Japan-based web developer). Of course, the same is true of Use in Commerce applications. Lower Risk.