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Jorda on : Exploitation of the Overlap Between Patents and Trade Secrets is Paramount

At this point I should make it unequivocally clear that my position is not that trade secrets should be embraced in favor of patents, nor is it my intention to denigrate patents in any way by embracing trade secrets over patents. What I have practiced in my career and what I endorse as the best policy and practice is to obtain patents as center of gravity in an intellectual property portfolio and maintain trade secrets as underpinnings for patents to protect unpatentable collateral know-how and show-how. Books, articles and presentations on intellectual property rights almost always, even nowadays, speak to patents, copyrights and trademarks as discreet subjects and with scant coverage of trade secrets. However, doing so overlooks the fact that legal protection of innovation of any kind, especially in high-tech fields, requires the use of more than one intellectual property category. This results in integration of intellectual property rights for dual, triple or multiple protection.

Full post as published by Jorda on Trade Secrets on November 08, 2007 (boomark / email).