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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Trade Secrets"”.
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Trade Secrets and International Investment Law
… when a state discloses, uses or regulates their trade secret. British investors in the Czech Republic and Kenya have acted on that displeasure by bringing claims against those states under investment promotion and protection treaties. While the protection of trade secrets has been noted by …
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Enforcing Trade Secrets among Competitors on the Semantic Web
… present a novel approach for the preservation of trade secrets in a Business-to-Business (B2B) environment that involves trade among competitors. The Web provides a low cost medium for B2B collaborations. Information exchange may take place during such a collaboration. The exchanged information …
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Komercinė paslaptis kaip civilinių teisių objektas, teisės į ją gynimo būdai ir egzistuojančios praktikos verslo organizacijose /
… of this thesis is to assess the importance of trade secret protection, defense options in the event of misappropriation and, based on the data of the research, determine trade secret protection practices used by organisations. The work consists of three main parts - theoretical, methodological, …
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Can Intellectual Property Rights form a part of the Salvors' Traditional Rights, and Can a Balance be achieved between them? The position of English, American and South African Salvors in the light of the recent decisions of the RMS Titanic cases in
… is examined, including Law of Copyright, of Trademarks and of Trade Secrets are examined and suggestions are made regarding the way forward.
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A Preliminary Analysis of how a Software Organization’s Maturity and Size Affect its Intellectual Property Portfolio
… is what this thesis will focus on, are patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyright. Patents, trade secrets, and copyrights were all studied by this thesis. Software IP is unique in that it can by copyrighted. Different IP owners, which can be businesses of different types, individuals, and …
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Empirical and theoretical observations in trade secrecy : statutory prescriptions and endogenous growth
Recent scholarship has suggested that trade secrecy may be as important, if not more important, than patenting as an intellectual property protection mechanism in the United States economy. While patent protection has always been an institution in the United States as a result of its inclusion in …
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Connecting silos with distributed and private computation
… constraints, communication bottlenecks, trade secrets, trust issues and competition. This necessitates development of efficient methods for distributed computation while preserving privacy to generate wisdom whose quality is on par with the case of data centralization. This thesis covers …
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Prototype Digital Forensics Repository
… of a crime involving identity theft, stealing trade secrets, malicious virus attacks, hacking of DVD players, etc. The law enforcement community which has been trained to deal with traditional form of crime, is now being trained in a new realm of Digital Forensics. Forensics investigators have …
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Case studies of mergers & acquisitions: best practices for technology transfer
… capital exists in the form of patents, trademarks, proprietary processes, copyrights, and industrial trade secrets, yet most knowledge resides in individuals - tacit knowledge that comes from experience, education, and other forms of learning...This dissertation examined seven cases of …
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Commercialisation of traditional knowledge in South Africa : whether the existing intellectual property framework encourages commercialisation
… the Republic of South Africa (RSA) are Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks and Industrial Design. Common law remedies are also available to parties whose rights have been infringed. The legislations governing these Intellectual Property (IP) regimes were passed at different periods, …
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Commercialisation of traditional knowledge in South Africa: whether the existing intellectual property framework encourages commercialisation.
… covers patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, know-how and confidential information. 1 The current available modes for protecting Intellectual Property (IP) in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) are Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks and Industrial Design. Common law …
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The effects of intellectual property on innovation : implications for R&D in biotechnology
… IPR systems are assessed, such as patents and trade secrets, for which corresponding types of licenses can provide solutions. Additionally, new approaches are assessed, such as patent pools, clearinghouses, open source models, liability regimes, experimental use exemption, and compulsory …
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Essays In Corporate Finance
… using the staggered adoption of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act as a plausibly exogenous source of variation in inter-firm information flow. I find that innovation becomes less efficient when information is more fragmented. To overcome the problem of limited informal knowledge exchange, …
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Duties of former employees after the termination of employment
… of the employer‟s confidential information and trade secrets by ex-employees and also defined what amounts to a trade secret, which is elemental in order to identify an employee‟s post-employment duties. Section 3 examines the inclusion restrictive covenants, restrictive penalty clauses and …
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Driven by digital innovations: Regulating connected car data access and use, for Telematics Insurance in Europe.
… Distribution Directive; The Database and Trade Secrets Directive; the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; and the General Data Protection Regulation – indicates that, although the current legal framework has the elements in place to help facilitate telematics innovations based …
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Examining the role of intellectual property law in Kenya's oil and gas sector
… and protection of patents, copyright, trade marks, trade secrets and industrial designs. This examination is based on a public interest approach to IP law and competition law and seeks to determine the possible effect of Kenya’s IP laws on investment and innovation in the sector. The …
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The prevention of internal identity theft-related crimes: a case study research of the UK online retail companies.
… to IIDTRC as the companies’ identities such as trade secrets and trademarks. Furthermore, the common methods used by the IIDTRC perpetrators include collaboration, collusion, infiltration and social engineering. Some of the IIDTRC prevention practices, of which the majority is software security, …
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Traditional Intellectual Property Protection in Tanzania: The Case of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
… be protected under any other branch such as trade secrets or geographicalindications for the simple reason that western IP protection mechanisms focus on private ownership and for a specific period of time whereas TK centers on communal ownership and perpetually protected. The study has found …
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Trade secret law, intellectual property, and innovation: Theoretical, empirical, and Asian perspectives
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