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Patent Protection vs. Trade Secrets: A Strategic Framework for High-Tech Startups

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When developing breakthrough technology, startups face a critical decision: pursue patent protection or maintain trade secrets. The choice depends on your technology's detectability and vulnerability to reverse engineering....more

Smart & Biggar

Protecting trade secrets and confidential business information in Canada

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Businesses can prevent third parties from misusing their valuable and commercially sensitive business information and trade secrets through contracts and the common law in Canada....more

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EV Trade Secret Litigation Continues to Boom with Tesla Suing Its Supplier Over EV Battery Technology Theft

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The rise in trade secrets litigation in the electric vehicle (“EV”) sector continues with Tesla filing another lawsuit: this time against its own equipment supplier. On June 14, 2024, Tesla filed a complaint in the Northern...more

Weintraub Tobin

Trade Secret or Patent?

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Business owners often ask whether they should protect their intellectual property with a trade secret or a patent. The answer is: It depends. What Can Be Protected? The first thing to consider is what it is that...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

IP Assignment Considerations for Emerging Companies

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Founders of an emerging company must decide early on in its growth cycle whether to require employees to assign their inventions (including rights to patent and patent applications –collectively “patent rights”) to the...more

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Fact-Specific Inquiry: Deciding Between Trade Secret and Patent Protection

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Innovations that are eligible for patent protection are often vital to a company’s revenue stream and profitability, but in some cases, opting for trade secret protection is a better strategic choice. Although some types...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Belt And Suspenders: Recent Federal Circuit Case Highlights Importance Of Using Trade Secret And Patent Protections For IP

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Many companies assume that they need to choose between patent protections or trade secret protections for their intellectual property, thereby foregoing an important tool in their arsenal to protect key company assets....more

McAfee & Taft

Avoiding contractual pitfalls and 'gotchas'

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You’re likely to see the same clauses repeated in most patent, trade secret and software license contracts. As a result, these agreements have a similar structure and feel, which can lead one to assume that a clause in a new...more

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