While companies are starting to better appreciate the role trade secrets can play in underpinning their intellectual capital, proactive trade secret management is still a very much neglected activity.

One of the most important developments in the world economy has been the increased importance of ideas and innovation.

Because IP monetization covers a wide range of business and legal activities, it is important to provide some examples.

After termination or expiration, the company should require the manufacturer to provide extensive transition services to the company.

The licensing of the company’s trade secrets and other IP should be consistent with the company’s identification of its trade secrets and other IP and appropriately limited in scope.

As I noted previously, over the past five years or so, the IEEE has been captured by the implementer lobby and its advocates.

While not always possible given local labor laws, to the extent possible, the company should require the manufacturer to adopt protocols to govern a termination of the manufacturer’s employees

The outsourced manufacturing agreement should require procedures that limit access to the company’s confidential information to specific

This post will provide an overview of key IP issues encountered when dealing with employees and independent contractors.

Apple and the Fearsome five are doing it again.   The same people who pushed the fallacious “troll bogeyman”; engaged in PTAB proxy warfare