The Patent Light

Business owners and even non-IP attorneys are often confused by intellectual property rights.  Because copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets fall into the rubric of intellectual property, they often believe that each right is treated in the same way as the other rights.  For instance, a common belief is that because a business owns the […]

In the U.S., the legal definition of a trade secret varies by state law.  Generally, there are three components required before most courts would treat a given piece of information as a trade secret: The information is not generally known to the public; The information confers some sort of economic benefit to its owner (where […]