A Non-Disclosure Agreement NDA is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential materials or knowledge the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict from generalized use. In other words, it is a contract through which the parties agree not...
There's a right way and a wrong way to conduct corporate research. As companies like Hewlett Packard, Procter & Gamble, and SAP have learned, doing it the wrong way can be costly — and embarrassing. Pretexting What It Is: Approaching a source for...
Trade secrets have inherent limitations and disadvantages in the field of public contracting. First, in order to control the trade secret, a cumbersome system of markings has been developed and is necessary for the preservation of the intellectual property. Further, in order to maintain these markings, contractors need to comply...
Franchisors have long packaged a business model along with a collection of intellectual property that includes service marks, trademarks, trade names, logos, trade secrets and copyrighted materials (e.g., operating manuals, product information sheets and advertising materials), in order to form an attractive business opportunity to potential franchisees. In order to...
The next and final part of this series, will examine IP rights designed to protect various processes. In doing so, we will focus on patents and trade secrets.
WELLINGTON AFP — New Zealand's fair trade watchdog said Wednesday it had charged three carriers, including Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines, with failing to provide information to a cargo price-fixing probe. The Commerce Commission said it had filed criminal charges against the two firms and Aerolineas Argentinas over...
"YOU'RE A GOOD MOM (AND YOUR KIDS AREN'T SO BAD EITHER)," Jen Singer, Sourcebooks Trade, 256 pages, $13.95 paperback Take Erma Bombeck-style humor and mix it with some solid parenting advice, and you get "You're A Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either)," the latest...
Simba Information expects the balance of 2008to be difficult for the U.S. trade book market and is projecting a salesdecrease of about 5%; erasing the gains of 2007, the year of runaway hitssuch as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and "The Secret." Theprojections were made in "Business of...
Klein brings major IP and business litigation experience NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- McKool Smith, PC, one of the country's leading intellectual property and commercial litigation trial firms, is expanding its New York office with the addition of accomplished litigation attorney Gayle Rosenstein Klein. ...
Gordon Brown said he was disappointed with 33 of his own ministers, including Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, for voting to continue with the "John Lewis List" of MPs' allowances for furnishing their second homes. But Mr Brown was criticised for a lack of leadership by David...
Sharewell Group earned a major victorytoday when the Los Angeles Superior Court granted a preliminary injunctionagainst Steve Wiideman, a former employee with the company. The action extends until trial an existing temporary restraining orderobtained by Sharewell in May. Wiideman is accused in the underlying lawsuitfiled by Sharewell of unfair competition...
NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaye Scholer LLP announced today that James Blank has joined the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, as Partner, in its New York office. Mr. Blank's practice focuses on patent litigation. His experience includes litigating patent cases involving liquid crystal displays, communications...
LONG AFTER he should have been home having dinner, Paul Holmgren was in his Voorhees, N.J., office working the phones and looking for deals. The NHL free-agent market was set to open at midnight, and the Flyers general manager sounded like he was going to be there when it did....
The Venus Approach to Real-Estate Investing SA Philipp and Barbara Heil-Sonneck The Sternthaler Group 2451 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 3602, Atlanta, GA 30339 9780981482507, $19.95, www.venusapproach.com The field of real estate can be a very profitable one, but what of women...
INSIDE STORY Chris Moore has been photographing the international fashion shows for more than 50 years. On the first day of haute couture week in Paris, the 'King of the Catwalk' reveals his trade secrets 1 RUNNING WITH THE PACK ...
Natural Health Trends Corp. (NASDAQ: BHIP)announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Terry LaCore, theCompany's founder and a former director and executive officer. The lawsuitcharges Mr. LaCore and his company, bHIP Global, Inc., ...
WASHINGTON -- After months of stalling, North Korea offered a glimpse of its secretive nuclear program Thursday and was promptly rewarded by President Bush with an easing of trade sanctions and a move to take the communist state off the U.S. terrorism blacklist. Bush, who once famously...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush on Thursday warily rewarded North Korean nuclear disclosures, easing trade sanctions and moving to take the "axis of evil" country off a US terrorism blacklist. But Bush stressed that his gesture would barely dent global pressure over the secretive communist...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush warily welcomed North Korea's nuclear accounting on Thursday, easing trade sanctions and moving to take the "axis of evil" nation off a US terrorism blacklist. Bush stressed that his gesture would only barely dent global pressure over the secretive communist...
Lech Walesa, Poland's Nobel Prize-winning former president, was at the centre of an explosive political row yesterday following publication of a book which claims that the ex-Solidarity trade union leader worked as a secret police informer under Communism. The potentially devastating charges are contained in a 780-page...
