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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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Getting Proactive Against Corruption — Q&A with Leslie Benton

Leslie Benton Create Org
September 09, 2014
The global economy has sparked unprecedented efficiency and innovation, but the age-old problem of corruption has also flourished along global supply chains — particularly those that traverse markets with weak rule of law.
 

It is a problem that undermines the functioning of the free market and hinders economic development where it is most needed, says Leslie Benton, vice president of advocacy and stakeholder engagement at the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe.org).
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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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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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