For innovative companies, the decision about whether to patent an invention or protect it as a trade secret is among the most consequential intellectual property choices such companies will make. The ...

Intellectual property—patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets—plays a vital role in economic growth and prosperity. Yet outside of law schools, most American colleges provide little or no ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Mergers and acquisitions, particularly those involving privately held companies in the technology sector, often involve a number of significant intellectual property (IP) issues. In a private company ...

In this article, we discuss non-traditional trademarks (NTMs), a growing worldwide phenomenon in the trademark universe. NTMs are "types of signs that are nowadays considered as being capable of ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The LEDES TM Oversight Committee (LOC), a not-for-profit organization charged with creating and maintaining open standard formats for the electronic exchange of legal billing ...

Decree 2008-1301 has slightly modified certain provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code with respect to patents and trademarks. Although opposition proceedings may still be suspended for up ...