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What’s the Difference Between Patents & Trade Secrets?

What’s the Difference Between Patents & Trade Secrets?

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

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Patents and trade secrets are two different methods to protect the valuable inventions of a business.  Now while many of the small business owner readers of this blog typically don’t deal with these issues, if you have invented a product or method (of doing business or creating a product) you should consider if and how [...]

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Registration & Contracts: Formal Protection for Your Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

Posted on 01. Dec, 2008 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

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When and how should you formally protect your intellectual property using registration and contracts?
For the Big Ideas that are most important to your business, you should be willing to spend some money obtaining higher levels of protection.  This includes the name of your business, the name(s) of your flagship products and services, the content of [...]

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