Intellectual Property for Business Owners – 10 Things You Should Know

Your business has intellectual property made up of your collective ideas, innovation, and intelligence. Your intellectual property can include trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and patents. There is no arguing the fact that intellectual property has value. A trade secret like the recipe for Coca-Cola can give a company a competitive advantage that lasts for a […]

How to Minimize Risk to Your Trade Secrets When Employees Leave

I’m sure you’ve worked very hard to build your business, and you’ve probably spent a lot of time, energy, and money into developing processes, policies, and strategies that enable you to create and sell your products or services. But what happens when a key employee who knows the ins and outs of those processes, policies, […]

What are Trade Secrets and Why Do They Matter to My Business?

Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that can have significant value for your company, including monetary value. However, they only hold value if they remain secret. That’s why trade secret protection is so important in business. If you can’t protect your trade secrets, then you’ll lose many of your competitive advantages in the […]

5 Things Entrepreneurs Should Know about Intellectual Property

I’m excited to announce the launch of my first free online course — 5 Things Entrepreneurs Should Know about Intellectual Property. As an intellectual property attorney, this topic is near and dear to my heart, but more importantly, it’s essential information for business owners in the digital age. In this course, I show you the […]

Trade Secret Protection Requires Specific Descriptions

If you want to protect your trade secrets, then you need to describe them in very specific terms. Generic and broadly defined trade secrets could be difficult to protect (or impossible). That’s a lesson California’s New Castle Beverage, Inc. learned the hard way not that long ago. Under California law, a specific written description of […]

5 Business Disasters if You Don’t Protect Your Trade Secrets

Trade secrets come in many shapes and sizes – from computer programs to manufacturing processes to supplier lists and many between – but they all have one thing in common: they are key to your competitive edge. Have you thought what would happen to your business if a competitor copied your proprietary business plans or […]