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Update Your Agreements

The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) enhances the protection of your company’s trade secrets by permitting federal civil lawsuits for misappropriation of any of those secrets. But significantly, the DTSA

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Create Loyal Consumers 

With each newly publicized innovation, your company will build trust that it is aware of customer problems and needs that competitors ignore, and will clearly demonstrate its focus on creatively solving

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Maximize Continuation Applications

In the U.S., a Continuation or “CON” is a follow-on patent application that claims an innovative concept that was described in a previously-filed “original” application, but has not been claimed

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Hinder Design-Arounds

When your company acquires patent protection for all technically feasible alternatives to its core innovative concepts, it forces its competitors to come to terms with its potentially insurmountable wall of

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