Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
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. Insiders know it as Merchandise 7X. 174,465, the most valuable patent in history.
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