Thursday
Oct202011
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CHECKLIST
CHECK ON YOUR TRADEMARKS, TRADE SECRETS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS!
CHECK ON YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICIES AND
PROCEDURES as well as YOUR EXTERNAL RELATIONS!
Trademarks
1. Importance to company’s business objectives identified.
2. Measures for selecting trademarks/domain names for new products, services?
3. Measures for assuring consistent proper use – on products, services, advertising?
4. Measures for assuring timely registration, renewal, amendment of registration to comply with changes made?
5. Possible infringement by third parties?
6. Licensing opportunities.
7. Relationship to Domain Names.
Trade Secrets
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Copyright protection, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Audit, Intellectual Property Examples, Invention, Nondisclosure Agreement, Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademark(s) in Intellectual Property
Copyright protection, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Audit, Intellectual Property Examples, Invention, Nondisclosure Agreement, Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademark(s) in Intellectual Property Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 10:12AM 
An Employee of a Research and Development (R&D) company worked on a new way to manufacture a widget produced by the company. The company did not ask Employee to do this; Employee just wanted to get a problem solved. The company did not have R&D funding set aside for this particular problem, so Employee worked on solving the manufacturing problem in his spare time, sometimes even working on it at home.