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3D Printing

Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale: How to Protect Your 3D-Printed Assets

Nicole Y Lamb Hale Albright Stonebridge Group
November 16, 2015

The gains from the global 3D printing revolution come with tremendous risk of IP theft — if not carefully managed.

 

The 3D printing industry is expanding at a rapid pace. Global revenue from additive manufacturing, which consists of printing layer upon layer of a material to make an object out of a digital file, is expected to top $21 billion by 2020 — a seven-fold increase from 2013.
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Grayson Brulte: Disincentivizing Online Piracy Through Innovation

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
January 06, 2015
You don’t have to read all the headlines about the online attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment to understand the growing problem of piracy confronting the TV and movie industry.
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Pamela Passman: How To Mobilize Risk Management Tools Against IP Threats

Pamela Passman Create Org
December 01, 2014
In an increasingly competitive global economy, information and ideas are the fuel that makes companies viable, allowing them to grow and create jobs.
 

Intellectual property (IP) — that covered by patents, trademarks, copyrights and harder-to-protect trade secrets — is now worth as much as 75 percent of the total value of major companies. But while the importance of these assets has grown, many businesses lag in their efforts to protect IP.
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William Ruh: What the Rise of Industrial Internet Means for Cyber Security

William Ruh GE
October 23, 2014
Security isn’t what it used to be. Thirty years ago, it was a fence with a locked gate and a guard posted outside a data center. Today, it’s a multi-layered strategy encompassing people, processes, devices, sensors, machines, systems and networks.
 

As the world’s markets rapidly evolve into complex hybrids of physical and digital assets, cyber security is increasingly critical as a stabilizing force. It is no longer an esoteric art practiced mainly by rival intelligence agencies and giant corporations — it has become a basic necessity of everyday life for any business.
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Jennifer Brant: Protecting Trade Secrets to Stimulate Knowledge Flows

Jennifer Brant Innovation Insights
September 04, 2014
As part of a debugging project, an employee of an Indian company, Geometric Ltd., was given access to software source code owned by SolidWorks, a U.S.-based client of the firm.
 

After leaving Geometric, the employee was caught trying to sell the software code to SolidWorks’ competitors. Because Indian law does not recognize the misappropriation of trade secrets, it was not possible to sue the individual. Since the source code belonged to SolidWorks — not Geometric — he technically had not stolen from his employer.
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Perspectives

Companies Mobilizing Against Trade Secret Theft — Q&A with Pamela Passman of CREATe

Pamela Passman Create Org
August 14, 2014
There was a time when the theft of a trade secret elicited a seemingly counterproductive response from the corporate victim — keeping the theft a secret. On one level, such a reaction was understandable, given the risk that going public about the compromise of a key piece of intellectual property (IP) could cause further harm to the bottom line.
 
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Intellectual Property is Key Economic Factor in Free Trade Deal

Dr Nam D Pham Ndp Analytics
April 23, 2014
President Obama’s trip to Asia this week to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has significant ramifications for the future of the U.S. and global economy. Yet, the TPP negotiations between the United States and Japan leading up to his trip have stalled with little progress in sight. This setback reveals the difficulty of negotiating a free trade treaty between two countries, let alone twelve.
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