If there is no business reason for a patent, the invention might just be defined and
kept as a trade secret.
Many aspects of a business are routinely
kept as trade secrets in a database, with little fanfare.
Not exact matches
And for confidential information that's harder to register such
as business plans,
trade secrets, and customer lists, controlling who has access to them can
keep things on lockdown.
The owner could have
kept these recipes
as a
trade secret but is instead sharing them with the world.
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Most companies
keep a lot of their work
as trade secrets.
MADE SAFE, a nonprofit organization that tests and certifies nontoxic products, notes that «Companies are legally allowed to
keep individual fragrance ingredients
secret because they're deemed «confidential business information,» or what's also known
as a «
trade secret.
More concerning STILL is that companies are able to
keep some chemicals a
secret as trade secrets.
As long as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others keep this information as trade secrets, we don't know what we're looking a
As long
as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others keep this information as trade secrets, we don't know what we're looking a
as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others
keep this information
as trade secrets, we don't know what we're looking a
as trade secrets, we don't know what we're looking at.
You might
keep it a
trade secret by limiting who knows about it, in which case, it's yours
as long
as you
keep it a
secret and no one else independently figures it out.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper thinks the state's legislation will become a model for other states, according to the Denver Post, because it goes further than other states with disclosure laws by requiring all chemicals to be named (or in cases where the oil and gas commission is convinced a specific chemical should be
kept a
trade secret, then the chemical family needs to be named),
as well
as the concentrations in which they are used.
The property in the
trade secret lasts
as long
as the
secret is
kept.
Really anything can be a
trade secret as long
as it gives a company a competitive advantage in the market place and it is subject to reasonable efforts to
keep it
secret.