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While the laws governing trade secrets differ slightly from country-to-country, common among nearly all these laws is that a trade secret is any information that is:

At first blush an audit sounds expensive, distracting and unnecessary. Let’s face it, we live in the age of the long tail

As we have discussed elsewhere, a trade secret audit or assessment is vital if a company is to protect itself during the outsourced manufacturing process.

Last time, I discussed outsourced manufacturing as well as the process and personnel. Now, I continue the discussion by exploring control over transactions and products as it relates to IP protection. Kidon IP,, outsourced manufacturing, Process, Products, Quality Control

After a period of skeptical acquiescence, anti-trust regulators seem to have come around and embraced patent pools for standard essential patents (SEPs.) The European Commission, no slouch when it comes to regulating SEPs, even remarked that the creation of patent pools “should be encouraged.”

A few days ago, in a federal court in Chicago gave a manufacturer some tough love about trade secret law.

After deciding on the basic corporate or contractual structure, the company should decide how best to strategically divide the manufacturing process.

Once the company selects a potential outsourced manufacturing partner, it should design a transaction structure that reinforces its commercial expectations and the manufacturer’s contractual obligations.

Over the past 100 years corporate America has become quite sophisticated in how it lobbies the US Federal and State government and regulators.

Perhaps the single most important part of outsourced manufacturing is to select a trustworthy partner.