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Protecting Your Bacon: Patent versus Trade Secret
2015-03-12 18:31:19| Food - Topix.net
While, generally speaking, copyright law protects art, and trademark law protects branding, patent and trade secret laws protect information. In deciding how to best protect proprietary information, innovators and businesses often come to a difficult patent/trade secret crossroads: do we keep this as a trade secret, or apply for a patent application? However a company chooses to protect its ideas, it's important to make those decisions early.
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