Posts Tagged ‘intellectual property’
Brand Protection: How Businesses Can Identify and Stop Intellectual Property Theft
Adam Shipley was furious. He spent years building up his company’s brand of elite fishing gear, and now someone was selling counterfeits — even using lookalike packaging — through a half-dozen online marketplaces. At half price! The copycats were cheap knockoffs that broke easily. Shipley knew that because hundreds of hoodwinked customers were deluging his…
Read MoreThe First Steps for Conducting Internal Investigations
Written by: James Hart When the call finally came, Raquel Henderson lunged for the phone on her desk. Henderson was less than three months into her job as the HR director for a midsize family business in a rural part of the state. The company was the community’s largest employer and a point of pride…
Read MoreTheft of Trade Secrets: How to Prevent the Loss of Key Intellectual Property
Written by: James Hart The names have been changed, but the following story is a compilation of real situations faced by real businesses. Doug Medford had never considered himself paranoid. But there were too many coincidences to merely be coincidental. Medford, the CEO of a small Midwestern manufacturer, learned that an up-and-coming competitor from China…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Guide for Small Businesses to Combat Economic Espionage
For decades, the US has been a victim of economic espionage — a foe that is now costing American companies billions of dollars in lost revenue. From hacking government websites to infiltrating research institutions with spies, competitors and foreign governments are pulling out all the stops to steal trade secrets. This scourge is no longer…
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