Over the course of my 20+ years practicing law, I have had the honor of working with many individuals at the cutting edge of all aspects of intellectual property.

If you follow statements of antitrust agencies the world over – even as far away as China and Korea

Well it finally happened. Notwithstanding the settlement with Apple, the district court overseeing the FTC’s case against Qualcomm issued a blistering, 233 page opinion against Qualcomm’s SEP licensing practices.

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.