Tag: Trade Secret Management

Every company has knowledge that does not appear on the balance sheet, is not always written into patents, and is often not even fully visible to management. It lives in engineering routines, customer conversations, laboratory shortcuts, manufacturing ...

For many companies, their most valuable assets are not patents or trademarks, but confidential knowledge. Manufacturing processes, algorithms, customer data, or internal strategies often define their competitive edge. Unlike registered IP rights, trad ...

Trade secrets have become the quiet heavyweights of IP. They are the formulas, process know-how, customer lists, pricing logics and data structures that keep many businesses ahead. But the moment these assets are at stake in court, one brutal reality ...

Task 24 of the CEIPI MIPLM’25 exam challenges candidates to explain the management of trade secrets in innovation-driven companies. The exam question The oral exam question presented to the MIPLM candidates is based on a realistic and increasingly rel ...

Trade secrets are becoming in our intangible economy an ever more important IP asset, especially due to the fast movement of knowledge workers between companies. Therefore companies are under pressure to introduce more formalized trade secret manageme ...

Trade secrets are becoming more important in the knowledge economy, which we are heading for. Whether it be recipes for foods, commercial information about cooperation partners or negative knowhow gained during development processes, all industries re ...