Intellectual property - Topics

How do you protect your business idea? How do companies protect their trade secrets? Technology joint ventures: who owns the IP developed inside them Patent agents can prosecute applications without ever attending law school Can a sacred symbol be trademarked by the community it belongs to? Who owns the working file after the client has paid for the design Who owns the data in a joint research project across two departments Why does winning a technical standard sometimes decide which companies survive? Portrait rights versus copyright: who controls a photograph of your own face What makes a patent standard essential and who gets to set the royalty? Why do rival standards fight for years instead of merging into one? Who owns the patents when a national lab discovers something on federal money? Losing a trade secret is permanent while a patent expires on a published date Who owns the laboratory notebook when a researcher leaves: the institution and the PI disagree Crowdfunding a study raises the money and also the question of who owns the result Copyright was never designed for designs that belong to a whole village A freelance contract should say who owns the source files once the project ends. Patent pools and cross-licensing deals between competing firms Traditional knowledge in drug discovery and who ends up holding the patent