Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
There’s an easy way to learn how to cycle. It basically involves getting on the bike and learning by trial and error. Yes, one can read about cycling, watch educational videos, talk to others who can cycle, study all of…
Trade secrets constitute an important part of a company’s intellectual property portfolio and they are generally any practice or process not known outside of the company. Specifically, for the practice or process of a company to be considered a trade…
The Lord of the Rings trilogy ends in suitably spectacular fashion with a battle scene following the retreat of all the good people to “Helms Deep,” a tall stone fortress built into the recess of a massive rock mountain. Seemingly…
A process is an interrelated set of activities designed to transform inputs into outputs, which should accomplish your pre-defined business objectives. Processes should produce an output of value, they very often span across organizational and functional boundaries and they exist…
The enactment of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) of 2016 in the United States creates a new paradigm and is a watershed event in intellectual property law. Former U.S. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on May…
The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) created a uniform federal trade secret law on May 11, 2016, in addition to the existing state trade secret laws. The DTSA is important for non US companies because it provides a…
As we both have written previously, the changing nature of technology, product development and sales, and the patent enforcement landscape, have given trade secrets a new-found prominence. Trade secrets are now becoming a much more significant part of a company’s…
Transfer pricing is probably the most important issue in international corporate taxation. In taxation and accounting, transfer pricing refers to the rules and methods for pricing transactions between enterprises under common ownership or control. A transfer price is the price…
In June 2017 law firm Baker McKenzie published an highly relevant and interesting report: “The Board Ultimatum, Protect and Preserve. The Rising Importance of Safeguarding Trade Secrets“. Key findings of the survey: Four out of five (82%) senior executives say…
In general terms, a case study is an account of an activity, event or problem that contains a real or hypothetical situation and includes the complexities one would encounter in the workplace. The IP Firm in this particular case study…