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Keep it secret or file a patent?

Patent Trademark Blog

If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. The Tradeoff: Giving Up Secret Information To Get Exclusive Rights. In exchange for the public disclosure of your proprietary information, the government is willing to give you a patent.

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Patent vs. Trade Secrets: Making the Right Choice

Intepat

Organizations must carefully consider to consider these options when protecting their inventions. Trade secrets, while cheaper and without time limits, must be kept confidential. To qualify for a patent, an invention must be novel, non-obvious, and useful. However, this protection is limited to the jurisdiction of filing.

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Trade Secret or Patent?

The IP Law Blog

A trade secret protects a business’s confidential and proprietary information. The information can be a formula, process, or customer list. A patent protects an invention. The invention can be an article of manufacture, a machine, a process (such as software), or a composition of matter (like a chemical formula).

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Trade Secret or Patent?

LexBlog IP

A trade secret protects a business’s confidential and proprietary information. The information can be a formula, process, or customer list. A patent protects an invention. The invention can be an article of manufacture, a machine, a process (such as software), or a composition of matter (like a chemical formula).

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Types of Intellectual Property Contracts

Intepat

Following are the types of Assignments: Assignment of Patents Assignment of Trademarks Assignment of Designs Assignment of Copyrights Assignment of confidential know-how Assignment of Geographical Indications Sometimes, a certain level of ambiguity arises between the concepts of licensing and assignment.

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Limited Licensing: An introductory overview

IP and Legal Filings

It serves the purpose of having Intellectual Property Rights in existence that is to give legal rights for the protection of the invention and creation. It includes reproduction, the preparation of derivative works, distributing copies by sale or rental, and public performance or display.

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Checklist of Issues on Generative IP

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It involves several IP rights, some of which overlap in some cases: copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets/confidential information, and the right of publicity (and similar rights with different names). Singapore (computational data analysis; user must not “use the copy for any other purpose”) f. Japan (Art.

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