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Steve McDaniel, JD, PhD; Jon Hurt, PhD; & Beth McDaniel, JD, Technology Litigators
July 24, 2012
Regardless of whether you have conducted a DIY trade secret audit (good idea) or not (not good - asking for trouble), you should consider finalizing your trade secret protection with a professional third party audit. Why? Because having your security…
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Steve McDaniel, JD PhD, Technology Litigators, Contributing Writer
June 5, 2012
The DIY approach looms large in certain sectors of our industry, with do-it-yourselfers painting everything from model cars to kitchens to yachts. As discussed in previous iPaint columns, trade secrets as a means to gain competitive edges also have a…
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Steve McDaniel, JD, PhD, Technology Litigators & Paul Stanfield, JD, Stanfield Hiserodt, PLLC
May 15, 2012
Queen’s Counsel: You have testified to this Court that you personally handed any bloke who walked into my client’s front office the computer code that contains its trade secrets, no questions asked. Is that right, Mr. Smythe?
Witness: Wh…
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Steve McDaniel, JD, PhD; and Jon Hurt, PhD, Technology Litigators
April 19, 2012
So, rather than protecting your product and your market share using trade secrets, you opt to patent your new and exciting additive, coating formulation, paint container, paint sprayer, etc., in the United States. Let’s say the U.S. is a huge m…
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Beth McDaniel, JD & Steve McDaniel, PhD, JD, Contributing Writers
March 19, 2012
Secret formulas, manufacturing processes, financial information, future product plans, customer lists…what are your trade secrets and what are you doing to protect them from inadvertent or intentional misuse or misappropriation by your ow…
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Steve McDaniel, PhD, JD, Contributing Editor
February 15, 2012
OK. We all know what trade secrets are, right? The formula for Coca Cola is supposedly in a heavily guarded vault in Atlanta (yeah, right). We can all probably agree that if someone swipes the Coke formula, they are guilty of trade secret theft (amon…
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Steve McDaniel, PhD, JD, Technology Litigators, Contributing Editor
January 24, 2012
Protecting novel compositions and processes.
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Steve McDaniel and Jon Hurt, Contributing Editors
November 30, -0001
Maybe that’s a little harsh. But, that indeed WAS the punishment exacted by Chinese emperors for several thousand years upon anyone caught attempting to export Bombyx mori (silkworms) or mulberry seeds (Morus alba) in order to start internation…
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Steve McDaniel, JD, PhD, Technology Litigators
November 30, -0001
A “protective wall of paper”—a series of documents including agreements and restrictive covenants to protect your trade secrets—is your first line of defense against the techno-thief (“The Wall”). Kinda like a lock…
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