Tag Archives: Trade Secrets

How Scammers Target Your Employees to Steal Your Trade Secrets

Employee Training and Education Is Key To Avoiding Online Scams What are Trade Secrets? For confidential information to be classified as a trade secret, it must not be generally known (i.e. it is only known and used by you) or …

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Trade Secrets For Start-Ups And Emerging Businesses

Trade secrets are an important and valuable component of a company’s intellectual property. Therefore, every effort should be made to identify, maintain, and protect trade secrets. Trade Secret Basics A trade secret is “information”, not generally known to the public, …

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Increase the Value of Your Business by Protecting Your Competitive Edge

As I stated in the first post of this series, in business, imitation is NOT the sincerest or highest form of flattery; it is someone stealing from you!! Have you found a unique way to solve a problem or improve …

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IP Strategies Protect Your Assets And Minimize Your Risk

I work with businesses and individuals to maximize the protection of their own intellectual property, and to minimize risk with regards to others’ intellectual property. Intellectual Property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, …

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Trade Secrets: Your Undisclosed Intellectual Property

by:  Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. Proprietary information such as customer lists and recipes are intellectual property.  However they are not formally protected in the same way as are trademarks, copyrights or patents.  These and other types of confidential information can only …

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