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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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Intersil Fined for TAOS Patent Infringement

2015-03-10 21:49:09| Semiconductors - Topix.net

Intersil Corp. has been found guilty of infringing patents held by Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions Inc. and fined $58.8 million in a court case that dates back to 2008. Taos was acquired by AMS AG in 2011.

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Even after Jury Trial and Final Judgment in Favor of Patent Owner,...

2015-03-10 18:40:08| Electronics - Topix.net

The plaintiff, U.S. Ethernet Innovations, LLC , filed a patent infringement action against several defendants in the Eastern District of Texas. The district court then transferred the cases to the Northern District of California.

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