Intellectual property is often the most valuable asset of a business. Intellectual property laws play a significant role in promoting and protecting innovation by affording legal rights to creators, inventors, and businesses to their inventions, brands, works of authorship, and trade secrets. The Importance of Intellectual Property For Your Business Intellectual property protection can enhance a business’s valuation and attractiveness …
How to Protect a Trade Secret
Trade secrets are protected under both federal and state laws. The Defend Trade SecretsAct of 2016 (DTSA) allows U.S. companies to protect against and remedy misappropriation oftrade secrets in federal court. Identifying and protecting trade secrets can be crucial to the success of a business. A trade secret is information, formulae, patterns, compilations, programs, devices, methods, techniques, or processes that …
How to Protect My Jewelry Designs
Jewelry designs may be protectable under US intellectual property laws. Jewelry designs are generally unique and intricate works of art that require creativity, skill, and craftsmanship and can consist of a wide range of elements, including the arrangement of gemstones, the shape and form of various metals, and their overall aesthetics. There are a few possible ways of securing intellectual …
Patent vs. Trade Secret
There is no blanket answer to the much asked question: Do I seek patent protection for my invention or maintain a trade secret? Every situation will vary depending on what is sought to be protected. While a trade secret can theoretically last forever, as long as the invention remains a secret, a patent granted in the U.S. provides the patent owner with the right …
