If you choose to protect
your invention as a trade secret, the law will only protect your innovation against unlawful discovery.
While some may prefer the security and obscurity offered by treating
an invention as a trade secret, the monopoly guaranteed by a patent is more attractive to others.
Not exact matches
If there is no business reason for a patent, the
invention might just be defined and kept
as a
trade secret.
You have a choice of protecting information such
as products,
inventions, designs, processes, customer lists, pricing,
trade secrets, and more.
I can talk for another three hours if we go into details of these factors but to make it short, if you would like to condense the above mentioned
as key actions tech companies should take when protecting their
invention, I would recommend key actions for making information intangible assets, which are documentation, classification, and proper measures to secure confidentiality of information, so
as to make information qualified
as trade secret and know - how protected by law.