Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
Wyeth, a pharmaceutical acquired by Pfizer in 2009, was the sole supplier of Premarin. At the same time, trade secrets are viewed as the stepchild of intellectual property because they operate, by definition, in secrecy, and we know much less about their role in market competition than we know about patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
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