Technology Commercialization Stages The answers to these questions vary as a project proceeds along the Stage/Gate or Agile/Lean Sprint process. For the Stage/Gate process, the “Technology Commercialization Stages” figure shows what is expected at the end of each stage. Thus question answers evolve in sophistication and detail as the project proceeds to commercialization. [...]
For each intellectual property asset identified, confirm that the information is recorded in the intellectual property database including: a unique name for the asset; a non-technical description which describes the problem solved by the asset and how the asset also solves the problem; a unique internal tracking number; date of invention/reduction to practice; [...]
Providing an overview of IP processes is a difficult task. This is because there are many processes falling under this heading. Part of this complexity arises because intellectual property is both a source of business information which can be used to strategic advantage, as well as a business asset which can be deployed [...]
Confidential Information is so closely tied to intellectual property that it is included in a business assets class of “Intellectual Assets” that also includes the four forms of intellectual property, i.e. patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Confidential Information Classifications In addition to trade secrets which are legally enforceable rights, there are a [...]
Element 1 of a Trade Secret Patents and trade secrets present somewhat opposing choices. Trade secrets derive their legal protection from their inherently secret nature. Patents, by contrast, can only be protected through public disclosure. In fact, a patent will be invalidated if the inventor refrains from describing important details. This requirement, called [...]
Unlike patents and trademarks, copyrights are much less complex when it comes to defining the scope of what will be protected. Copyright applies as soon as a work product is reduced to a fixed form, and so there is no risk of loss of copyrights or inadvertent disclosure or use by another party. [...]
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