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. This change may further tip the balance for more reliance on secrecy for certain innovations.
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