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Discusses smarter design choices and complementary intellectual property strategies.

When setting intellectual property strategy it pays to have a solid understanding of the prevailing business issues. In cleantech there are a number of diverse industries involved, with a trend towards convergence of technologies and sectors.

This article outlines the remedies available to a person for breach of confidence - when they find their secret is out.

This article is a quick 2-step guide on how to identify and to protect NZ intellectual property rights in 2014.

What intellectual property (IP) related steps should a start-up take? Start-ups should take the same steps as a large multinational, but within their budget.

An organisation's biggest asset (its key employees) can also be its biggest liability, should they decide to move on.

You don't want others swiping your valuable ideas and running with them. But without the right confidentiality agreements in place, that's exactly what could happen.

There are both legal and commercial justifications for including time limits in confidentiality agreements.

In this day of the phrase, the age of the sound byte, where we are constantly bludgeoned by new sayings such as wassup, your dissed and that’s a heads up, or even heaven forbid banalities such as moving forward some old sayings still have meaning.

Food ingredient manufacturers maintain competitive advantage by use of trade secrets, exclusive agreements and patents.