Patents trade secret

Patent medicine industry, 78 683 Patent office gazettes, printed, 78 210-211 Patent portfolio auditing, 78 185 compiling, 78 157 Patent protection, foreign, 78 191 Patent research, in fine chemical research and development, 77 425-426 Patents, 5 766 78 157-197. See also Foreign patents Invention Patentability Trade secrets article of manufacture category in, 78 166... 

Bouchoux DE. Protecting Your Company s Intellectual Property A Practical Guide to Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, Trade Secrets. American Management Association, 2001. 

Any information considered proprietary can be a trade secret, regardless of whether the information would also qualify for a patent. Trade secrets are established by the manner in which information is treated, used or disseminated no application or registration with a government authority is required. 

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