Unlike patents, trade secrets offer no period of exclusivity: if I figure out your trade secret, I can use it, fair and square.
Yes, but don't tell anyone.
Allison Coleman has written: 'The legal protection of trade secrets' -- subject(s): Trade secrets 'Intellectual property law' -- subject(s): Intellectual property
Melvin F. Jager has written: '1982 trade secrets law handbook (Intellectual property library)' '1984 trade secrets law handbook (Intellectual property library)'
Copyright is a type of intellectual property. Other types are trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.
James Pooley has written: 'The executive's guide to protecting proprietary business information and trade secrets' -- subject(s): Intellectual property, Trade secrets
David R. Gerk has written: 'New practitioner's guide to intellectual property' -- subject(s): Trade secrets, Trademarks, Copyright, Intellectual property, Unfair Competition, Patent laws and legislation, Law and legislation
Carlos Correa has written: 'Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights' -- subject(s): Intellectual property (International law), Foreign trade regulation, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property refers to creative endeavors to which exclusive rights can be applied. Copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secrets are the major types of intellectual property.
The World Trade Organization.
Mingxing. Yang has written: 'Ren ti sheng li 100 wen' 'Trade battles of intellectual property rights' -- subject(s): Economic aspects of Intellectual property, Economic development, Intellectual property, Intellectual property (International law)
CopyrightTrademarkPatentTrade SecretCopyright is vested in any creative work and gives the author (or those they sell the copyright to) the sole right to copy and to publish the original or a derivative work.Trademarks are officially registered and protect a company's brand.Patents give a limited time monopoly on an invention in return for publishing it.Trade Secrets are otherwise unprotected information that is kept secret or divulged only to those who agree to keep it secret. If the secret gets out it is no longer protected.
The agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights is a World Trade Organization agreement from 1994 which required member states to better align their various IP laws. It significantly eased international trade in intellectual property and increased accessibility to patented drugs in developing nations, but perhaps its biggest impact was forcing countries to acknowledge that intellectual property rights hadtrade-related aspects to begin with.
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office patents new inventions, provides trade-marks for goods or services, copyrights works, and is responsible for the administration and processing other intellectual property in Canada.