Under California law a “trade secret” is defined as “information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process that: (1) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to the public or to [...]
Intellectual property (“IP”) rights – copyrights, trademarks, service marks, domain names, trade secrets, and patents – are generally the foundation or core assets of online businesses. In many cases, this is also true of “brick and mortar” companies which have [...]
Authors Catherine Holland and Mark Benedict explain, Intellectual property can form an important profit center of a business. For example, one fabless semiconductor chip design vendor named Element 14 sold patented and copyrighted circuit designs to chip manufacturers. Element 14 [...]
A “trademark” is a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination thereof, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of another. On the other hand, a “service mark” identifies and distinguishes the [...]